Employment changes among Chinese family caregivers of long-term cancer survivors

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Associated factors of employment reduction among FCGs from separate multivariable logistic regression analyses

	Odd Ratio, OR
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3^b	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6	Model 7	Model 8	Model 9	Model 10
Age at time of survey^a	0.992	0.997	0.998	0.995	0.995	0.992	0.993	0.993	1.003	0.993
Residence area
Urban	Ref
Rural	2.191***	2.136***	2.314***	2.534***	2.082***	2.259***	2.223***	2.078***	1.965**	2.252***
Gender
Male	Ref
Female	0.720*	0.704*		0.730*	0.701*	0.722*	0.718*	0.730*	0.821	0.697*
Marital status
Others	Ref
Married	2.051**	2.176**	2.098**	1.860*	1.994**	2.105**	2.049**	2.052**	1.862	2.229*
Education
Uneducated	Ref
Elementary school	1.204	1.148	1.276	1.093	1.204	1.220	1.207	1.240	1.119	1.230
Middle school	0.802	0.766	0.896	0.751	0.786	0.810	0.803	0.822	0.626	0.695
High school and above	0.385**	0.351*	0.433**	0.363**	0.384**	0.388**	0.391**	0.395**	0.388*	0.306**
Annual household income, Chinese Yuan
< 5000 CNY	Ref
5000–19,999 CNY	0.685	0.675	0.683	0.778	0.685	0.693	0.681	0.682	0.776	0.728
20,000–50,000 CNY	0.742	0.744	0.728	0.873	0.692	0.748	0.741	0.734	0.976	0.927
> 50,000 CNY	0.578	0.600	0.569	0.584	0.536*	0.593	0.575	0.573	0.976	0.921
Comorbidity
0		Ref
≥ 1		1.593**
Cancer site
Colorectal			Ref
Breast			1.021
Lung			0.933
Stomach			0.992
Cancer stage at diagnosis
0-I				Ref
II				1.481*
III-IV				1.394
Chemotherapy
No					Ref
Yes					1.638**
Surgery
No						Ref
Yes						0.736
Radiation therapy
No							Ref
Yes							1.187
Duration of disease since diagnosis
2–3 years								Ref
4–5 years								1.249
Limited ability to perform physical tasks
No									Ref
Yes									5.710***
Limited ability to perform mental tasks
No										Ref
Yes										1.513*

^a Age was entered as a continuous variable in the regression model
^b The model 3 for cancer site adjusted for residence area, age, marital status, annual household income, and educational level. Models 2, 4–10 adjusted for residence area, age, gender, marital status, annual household income, and educational level
***, **, * indicates P < 0.001, P < 0.01; P < 0.05, respectively

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