Exposure to gender-based violence and depressive symptoms among transgender women in Cambodia: findings from the National Integrated Biological and Behavioral Survey 2016

Table 4 Factors associated with depressive symptoms among transgender women (n = 1375)

Variables in the final model^a	Depressive symptoms^b
Variables in the final model^a	AOR (95% CI)	p-value
Study site
Urban	Reference
Rural	1.55 (1.13–2.12)	0.006
Main occupation
Unemployed	Reference
Entertainment worker	0.52 (0.27–0.99)	0.04
Student	0.34 (0.17–0.70)	0.003
Co-workers or classmates are supportive regarding your transgender identity
Very much supportive	Reference
Supportive	1.08 (0.78–1.51)	0.63
Not supportive	2.00 (1.22–3.28)	0.006
Not at all supportive	1.78 (0.39–8.20)	0.46
Difficulties in getting a job because of your transgender identity
No	Reference
Yes	1.67 (1.29–2.16)	< 0.001
Denied or thrown out of a housing because of your transgender identity
No	Reference
Yes	1.53 (1.02–2.26)	0.04
Difficulties in getting health services because of your transgender identity
No	Reference
Yes	2.40 (1.50–3.82)	< 0.001
Physically abused because of your transgender identity
No	Reference
Yes	1.54 (1.15–2.08)	0.04
Fearful of being arrested by police or authorities because of your transgender identity
No	Reference
Yes	2.18 (1.64–2.91)	< 0.001
Someone had tried to touch me or make me touch them in a sexual way during childhood
No	Reference
Yes	2.08 (1.61–2.68)	< 0.001

AOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval
^aVariables in the table were the ones that remained statistically significant in the final multivariate logistic regression model after several steps of model fitting
^bDefined by a Center for Epidemiology Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) score of ≥ 16

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