Mental health, violence and psychological coercion among female and male trafficking survivors in the greater Mekong sub-region: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Crude prevalence ratios of demographic characteristics and anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression in trafficked males, n = 446

	Anxiety		PTSD^a		Depression
	PR^b	95% CI^c	PR	95% CI	PR	95% CI
Age
10–17 (reference)	1.0		1.0		1.0
18–25	1.14	0.64–2.06	1.79	0.76–4.20	1.41	0.95–2.09
26 or above	1.06	0.64–1.76	1.64	0.91–2.96	1.43	1.08–1.90**
Country of exploitation
Thailand (reference)	1.0		1.0		1.0
China	1.33	0.68–2.59	3.63	2.58–5.12***	1.60	0.91–2.82
Other^d	0.92	0.70–1.22	2.89	2.04–4.11***	0.95	0.84–1.08
Sector of exploitation
Forced marriage, entertainment, dancing, domestic work, cleaner, restaurant work, begging, and other (reference)	1.0		1.0		1.0
Animal, farming, agriculture, and fishing	1.03	0.58–1.81	1.23	0.64–2.34	1.37	0.81–2.32
Construction and factory work	1.40	0.76–2.57	1.27	0.85–1.89	1.34	0.94–1.91
Time in trafficking situation (months)
1–12 (reference)	1.0		1.0		1.0
13 or more	2.31	1.28–4.16**	1.22	0.48–3.11	1.02	0.60–1.74

^*p ≤ 0.05
^**p ≤ 0.01
^***p ≤ 0.001
^aPTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder
^bPR Prevalence ratio
^c95% Confidence interval
^dOther country of exploitation included Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mauritius, South Africa, and Russia

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