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Table 2 Multinomial logistic regression analyses of determinants of self-rated health in 134 Alzheimer caregivers

From: Refining caregiver vulnerability for clinical practice: determinants of self-rated health in spousal dementia caregivers

Factors

Good SRH vs. poor/fair SRH

Very good SRH vs. poor/fair SRH

Excellent SRH vs. poor/fair SRH

 

Crude OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR (95% CI)

Crude OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR (95% CI)

Crude OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR (95% CI)

Age

0.98 (0.92, 1.05)

1.01 (0.90, 1.13)

1.02 (0.96, 1.09)

1.15 (1.02, 1.30)

1.00 (0.93, 1.08)

1.09 (0.93, 1.28)

Female sex

0.61 (0.15, 2.55)

0.67 (0.09, 4.73)

0.50 (0.13, 1.98)

0.30 (0.04, 2.42)

0.63 (0.12, 3.24)

0.19 (0.01, 2.66)

Higher education

1.13 (0.35, 3.63)

0.91 (0.16, 5.14)

1.33 (0.42, 4.19)

0.81 (0.13, 5.09)

7.20 (0.78, 66.63)

3.56 (0.19, 66.64)

Body mass index

0.97 (0.90, 1.06)

1.08 (0.93, 1.26)

0.92 (0.83, 1.01)

1.16 (0.97, 1.39)

0.81 (0.70, 0.94)

0.96 (0.74, 1.25)

Physical activity

1.02 (0.71, 1.46)

0.88 (0.51, 1.53)

1.48 (1.04, 2.10)

1.20 (0.66, 2.17)

2.02 (1.30, 3.14)

1.52 (0.75, 3.10)

Alcohol consumption

1.13 (0.84, 1.51)

1.29 (0.80, 2.08)

1.38 (1.05, 1.83)

1.88 (1.14, 3.12)

1.50 (1.09, 2.06)

1.73 (0.96, 3.10)

Ever smoking

0.56 (0.19, 1.61)

1.08 (0.26, 4.49)

0.57 (0.20, 1.58)

0.89 (0.18, 4.33)

1.25 (0.36, 4.36)

10.01 (1.10, 91.14)

Physical health problems

0.77 (0.56, 1.05)

0.80 (0.51, 1.26)

0.51 (0.35, 0.74)

0.55 (0.31, 0.97)

0.47 (0.28, 0.77)

0.57 (0.26, 1.27)

Caregiver physical function

1.56 (1.18, 2.10)

2.78 (1.49, 5.21)

2.09 (1.52, 2.88)

4.42 (2.21, 8.81)

2.81 (1.75, 4.52)

6.25 (2.75, 14.20)

Negative affect

0.86 (0.79, 0.93)

0.88 (0.78, 0.99)

0.91 (0.84, 0.98)

0.97 (0.86, 1.09)

0.81 (0.72, 0.91)

0.78 (0.64, 0.96)

Positive affect

1.02 (0.95, 1.11)

1.08 (0.95, 1.22)

1.07 (0.99, 1.16)

1.17 (1.02, 1.35)

1.22 (1.10, 1.36)

1.33 (1.11, 1.60)

Social support

1.08 (0.98, 1.20)

1.03 (0.89, 1.20)

1.00 (0.91, 1.10)

0.91 (0.77, 1.08)

1.07 (0.95, 1.21)

1.01 (0.80, 1.26)

Caregiving-specific stress total

0.81 (0.62, 1.05)

0.57 (0.37, 0.87)

0.78 (0.61, 1.01)

0.54 (0.35, 0.84)

0.87 (0.64, 1.18)

0.51 (0.30, 0.86)

  1. Odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) in bold indicates a significant difference in the likelihood of a variable from the group of poor/fair self-rated health (SRH) as the reference category. All variables were entered in one block. Caregiver physical function and caregiving-specific stress total are expressed for half a standard deviation increase in the averaged z-score computed from the five, respectively four, original variables included in these scores
  2. Range of scores: 0 to 6 for physical activity and for alcohol consumption, 0 to 8 for physical health problems, −5.54 to 2.12 for caregiver physical function, 10 to 40 for negative affect, 10 to 50 for positive affect, 1 to 24 for social support, −4.54 to 5.58 for caregiving-specific stress total
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