Factors related to health civic engagement: results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to understand progress towards a Culture of Health

Dubowitz, Tamara; Nelson, Christopher; Weilant, Sarah; Sloan, Jennifer; Bogart, Andy; Miller, Carolyn; Chandra, Anita

doi:10.1186/s12889-020-08507-w

Table 4 Regression estimates of relationships between full health civic engagement scale and the full sense of community scale and its subscales

From: Factors related to health civic engagement: results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to understand progress towards a Culture of Health

	Full Sense of Community Scale			Membership Subscale			Emotional Connection Subscale			Health Subscale
	β	se	p-value	β	se	p-value	β	se	p-value	β	se	p-value
Sense of Community
Full Set of Sense of Community Items	0.228	0.015	0.000
Membership subscale				0.211	0.014	0.000
Emotional connection subscale							0.175	0.013	0.000
Health subscale										0.158	0.013	0.000
Value Invested in Community Health	0.140	0.014	0.000	0.146	0.014	0.000	0.143	0.014	0.000	0.143	0.014	0.000
Barriers to Acting to Improve Community Health	0.000	0.015	0.976	−0.003	0.015	0.866	−0.001	0.015	0.958	0.000	0.015	0.988
Age in years
Linear term	0.003	0.001	0.021	0.003	0.001	0.029	0.003	0.001	0.043	0.003	0.001	0.023
Quadratic term	0.000	0.000	0.533	0.000	0.000	0.680	0.000	0.000	0.661	0.000	0.000	0.637
Race/Ethnicity			0.001			0.001			0.001			0.002
Non-Hispanic White (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–
Non-Hispanic Black	0.044	0.015	0.003	0.041	0.015	0.005	0.047	0.015	0.002	0.044	0.015	0.003
Hispanic	0.007	0.013	0.569	0.005	0.013	0.671	0.008	0.013	0.553	0.012	0.013	0.352
Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander	−0.050	0.024	0.035	−0.053	0.024	0.025	− 0.045	0.024	0.058	−0.049	0.024	0.041
Non-Hispanic All other races	0.055	0.024	0.020	0.054	0.024	0.025	0.059	0.024	0.012	0.049	0.023	0.038
Female	−0.018	0.008	0.019	−0.017	0.008	0.036	−0.021	0.008	0.007	−0.018	0.008	0.023
Marital status			0.536			0.501			0.637			0.553
Married or living with partner	−0.011	0.013	0.370	−0.009	0.013	0.477	−0.010	0.013	0.414	−0.009	0.013	0.471
Sep., Div., or Wid.	−0.016	0.014	0.269	−0.017	0.014	0.244	−0.013	0.014	0.358	−0.016	0.015	0.277
Never married (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–
Region			0.000			0.000			0.000			0.000
Northeast	0.006	0.011	0.612	0.005	0.011	0.654	0.006	0.011	0.575	0.003	0.011	0.755
Midwest	−0.007	0.011	0.532	− 0.002	0.011	0.845	−0.007	0.011	0.508	−0.008	0.011	0.438
South (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–
West	0.051	0.010	0.000	0.053	0.010	0.000	0.050	0.010	0.000	0.049	0.010	0.000
Education			0.000			0.000			0.000			0.000
Up to High school (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–
Some College	0.066	0.010	0.000	0.067	0.010	0.000	0.066	0.010	0.000	0.066	0.010	0.000
BA or higher	0.129	0.011	0.000	0.132	0.011	0.000	0.130	0.011	0.000	0.132	0.011	0.000
Family Income (in units of $10 K)	0.003	0.001	0.000	0.004	0.001	0.000	0.003	0.001	0.000	0.003	0.001	0.000
Household size (number of individuals)	−0.004	0.003	0.163	−0.004	0.003	0.180	− 0.004	0.003	0.153	−0.004	0.003	0.181
Employed	0.010	0.009	0.285	0.010	0.009	0.279	0.010	0.009	0.270	0.010	0.009	0.307
Years living in community			0.002			0.004			0.001			0.000
Less than 5 years (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–
5 to 9 years	0.038	0.013	0.004	0.037	0.013	0.006	0.041	0.013	0.002	0.040	0.013	0.003
10 to 19 years	0.041	0.012	0.000	0.039	0.012	0.001	0.044	0.012	0.000	0.046	0.012	0.000
20 or more years	0.036	0.011	0.001	0.034	0.011	0.003	0.039	0.011	0.001	0.045	0.011	0.000
City size			0.030			0.029			0.026			0.066
Not a Town	−0.012	0.011	0.269	−0.017	0.011	0.134	−0.014	0.011	0.202	−0.001	0.011	0.945
Small Town (2.5 - 50 K)	−0.034	0.013	0.008	−0.034	0.013	0.008	−0.036	0.013	0.006	−0.028	0.013	0.029
Midsized City (50 - 500 K)	−0.020	0.010	0.046	−0.020	0.010	0.050	−0.019	0.010	0.057	−0.018	0.010	0.066
Large City (500 K+) (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–
Self-rated health			0.005			0.001			0.002			0.001
Excellent	0.046	0.016	0.005	0.050	0.016	0.002	0.051	0.016	0.002	0.053	0.016	0.001
Very good	0.006	0.009	0.519	0.008	0.009	0.357	0.008	0.009	0.372	0.009	0.009	0.315
Good (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–
Fair	−0.023	0.012	0.064	−0.026	0.012	0.034	−0.022	0.012	0.072	−0.026	0.012	0.034
Poor	−0.032	0.022	0.144	−0.031	0.022	0.164	−0.034	0.022	0.129	−0.037	0.023	0.102
Poor health of another impacts life	0.053	0.009	0.000	0.053	0.009	0.000	0.052	0.009	0.000	0.054	0.009	0.000
Chronic health condition	0.009	0.009	0.316	0.010	0.009	0.265	0.009	0.009	0.322	0.009	0.009	0.307
Financial problems due to health	0.068	0.010	0.000	0.067	0.010	0.000	0.068	0.010	0.000	0.066	0.010	0.000
Helps others who are ailing			0.000			0.000			0.000			0.000
More than once per week	0.075	0.012	0.000	0.073	0.012	0.000	0.079	0.012	0.000	0.084	0.012	0.000
Up to once a week	0.073	0.009	0.000	0.073	0.009	0.000	0.078	0.009	0.000	0.080	0.009	0.000
Never (reference)	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–	0.000	–	–

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