Research Article

Psychological Distress in Women with Chronic Bronchitis in a Fishing Community in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Table 4

The adjusted odds ratio for the association between individual study variables and psychiatric morbidity among women exposed to biomass smoke.

ParameterAnxietyDepression
OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)

Age0.9 (0.74–1.01)0.270.99 (0.95–1.03)0.68
Education1.2 (0.61–2.2)0.650.7 (0.17–2.7)0.61
Exposure1.02 (1.01–1.1)0.0031.03 (1.10–1.08)0.04
Sleeping* room1.8 (0.88–3.5)0.112.7 (1.32–5.3)0.006
CB2.3 (1.2–4.7)0.023.6 (1.8–7.3)<0.001

CB: chronic bronchitis.
*Sleeping in the same room where fish smoking was carried out.