Individual and household-level predictors of health related quality of life among middle-aged people in rural Mid-east China: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Binary logistic regression analysis of predictors of MCS among 428 middle-aged residents of 12 rural villages in Mid-east China in 2013

Variable (reference value)	Variable’s value	Block 1 model			Block 1 and 2 model
		β	OR(95% CI)	Sig.	β	OR(95% CI)	Sig.
Sex(male)	Female	-0.132	0.536-1.432	0.598	-0.252	0.464-1.302	0.339
Age (per year)	---	-0.020	0.940-1.023	0.363	-0.010	0.947-1.036	0.671
Occupation (unemployed)	Agriculture	0.108	0.652-1.903	0.694	0.308	0.768-2.413	0.292
Occupation (unemployed)	Workers	0.026	0.489-2.155	0.944	-0.242	0.359-1.716	0.544
Education (illiterate)	Elementary school	0.008	0.547-1.856	0.980	-0.226	0.416-1.532	0.498
	Junior middle school	0.440	0.767-3.144	0.222	0.146	0.540-2.480	0.707
	Senior middle school	0.602	0.693-4.808	0.223	0.399	0.544-4.085	0.438
Marital status (with spouse)	Without spouse	-0.193	0.352-1.935	0.658	-0.211	0.320-2.050	0.656
Lives with others except spouse (yes)	No				-0.485	0.384-0.988	0.044
Household per capita income (per 1000 ¥)	---				0.156	1.098-1.245	<0.001
Household per capita living space (per m²)	---				-0.003	0.992-1.002	0.285
Drinking water supply (unsafe water)	Safe water				0.581	1.111-2.879	0.017
Frequency of household members caring about each other(seldom)	Always				0.963	1.087-6.952	0.043
	Often				0.357	0.516-3.959	0.493

Block 1 includes only individual-level factors; block 2 also includes household-level factors. For the block 1 model: R squared = 0.031, Model Sig. = 0.320; for the block 1 and 2 model: R squared = 0.138, Model Sig. <0.001.

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