Impact of socioeconomic status and subjective social class on overall and health-related quality of life

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Adjusted effect of the gap between socioeconomic stratum and subjective social class on difference between HRQOL and QOL^a

	Difference between HRQOL and QOL
	Estimate	SE	95 % CI		P-value
Income
Low	-0.004	0.497	-0.978	0.971	0.995
Middle	-0.375	0.477	-1.309	0.559	0.489
High	ref
Education
Low	1.542	0.444	0.672	2.413	0.001
Middle	1.300	0.360	0.593	2.006	0.000
High	ref
Subjective social class
Low	6.725	0.785	5.186	8.264	<0.0001
Middle	2.413	0.754	0.935	3.892	0.001
High	ref

^aModels adjusted for age, sex, residential region, marital status, employment status, smoking status, alcohol consumption, number of contact with friend, self- rated health, depressive symptoms, and year of survey

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