Self-reported health and life satisfaction in older emergency department patients: sociodemographic, disease-related and care-specific associated factors

Table 4 Estimates for fixed and random effects from multilevel linear regression analysis (random intercept model) for life satisfaction as dependent variable and goodness-of-fit statistics

Fixed effects	Coefficient	95% CI	SE	p-value
Intercept	3.57	2.39; 4.84	0.62	<.001
Sex: Female	−0.28	−0.55; −0.02	0.14	.036
Study (reference category: EMAAge):
EMACROSS	0.52	0.07; 0.96	0.23	.021
EMASPOT	0.53	0.15; 0.90	0.19	.006
Education (reference category: Primary level):
Secondary level	−0.14	−0.47; 0.18	0.17	.412
Tertiary level	−0.21	−0.60; 0.13	0.18	.242
Social contacts (reference category:None):
1–2 persons	0.72	−0.01; 1.45	0.38	.055
3 or more persons	1.37	0.65; 2.08	0.37	<.001
Care dependency: Yes	−0.59	−0.98; − 0.21	0.20	.003
Migration background: Yes	0.24	−0.10; 0.57	0.17	.170
Employment status (reference category: Employed):
Retired	−0.07	−0.49; 0.36	0.22	.740
Not (regularly) employed	−1.27	−1.80; −0.73	0.27	<.001
Other	0.06	−0.71; 0.84	0.40	.879
ED visit: Yes	−0.16	−0.48; 0.16	0.16	.313
Hospital stay: Yes	−0.04	−0.37; 0.31	0.17	.840
Age (in years)	0.02	0.005; 0.03	0.01	.008
Self-reported health status	0.03	0.02; 0.03	< 0.01	<.001
Case type: Inpatient	0.02	−0.31; 0.33	0.16	.911
Random effects	Variance Component		SD
Level-two variance: ED	0.02		0.14
Level-one variance:	5.20		2.28
Marginal R² (fixed effects):	0.1501
Conditional R² (fixed and random effects):	0.1531
ICC:	0.0058

Note: N = 1245; Level 2: n = 8 emergency departments; CI Confidence interval, SE Standard error, SD Standard deviation, ED Emergency department, ICC Intraclass correlation coefficient

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