Prevalence of loneliness and associations with health behaviours and body mass index in 5835 people living with and beyond cancer: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Pooled (20 iterations) associations between loneliness and health behaviours in 5835 people LWBC^a

World Cancer Research Fund recommendations (not meeting = 0, meeting = 1)	OR^b	95% CI^c		p
Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity	0.78	0.67	0.97	0.028*
Fibre	1.07	0.79	1.44	0.663
Fruit and vegetables	0.81	0.67	1.00^d	0.046*
Red Meat	0.72	0.45	1.15	0.163
Processed Meat	1.00	0.83	1.19	0.954
Sugar	0.84	0.70	1.00	0.068
Fat	0.87	0.69	1.04	0.249
Alcohol	0.89	0.67	1.19	0.424
Smoking	0.62	0.46	0.84	0.003*
Body mass index	0.79	0.46	1.16	0.790

^aReference category: lower loneliness (< 6 on UCLA loneliness scale). Models adjusted for covariates– age, sex, ethnicity, education, marital status, cancer type, treatments, time since treatment, time since diagnosis, number of comorbidities, cancer spread; ^bOR=odds ratio; ^cCI=Confidence interval. ^d0.996 rounded up *indicates statistical significance at 0.05 alpha level.

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