Perceived effects of health status on sexual activity in women and men older than 50 years

Table 3 Multivariate logistic regression model showing the adjusted associations between demographic, clinical and quality of life variables and reporting that health status had a large effect on sexual activity in the 15D question

	Full model or (95% CI)	p-value	Final model or (95% CI)	p-value
Age groups (years)
50–59 ref-		0.031		0.037
60–69	6.78 (1.83–25.1)	0.004	5.70 (1.62–29.2)	0.007
70–79	4.33 (1.07–17.6)	0.040	3.60 (0.94–13.9)	0.062
≥80	8.10 (0.89–74.0)	0.064	9.04 (1.29–63.4)	0.027
Men	4.78 (1.43–16.0)	0.001	10.8 (3.01–38.9)	<0.001
Weight (kg)	1.04 (1.00–1.08)	0.028	1.03 (1.00–1.07)	0.041
Higher education (>13 years)	1.61 (0.54–4.81)	0.392
Married/cohabiting	1.69 (0.55–5.27)	0.363
Regular exercise*	1.75 (0.63–4.87)	0.283
Mean total score for co-morbidity (range 0–6)	0.58 (0.33–1.03)	0.061
Wrist fracture group	0.76 (0.27–2.11)	0.597
SF-36 PCS**	0.89 (0.83–0.94)	<0.001	0.88 (0.37–0.93)	<0.001
SF-36 MCS**	0.93 (0.88–0.98)	0.007	0.92 (0.88–0.96)	0.001
QOLS***	0.98 (0.92–1.04)	0.506
R²	44.5%		41.0%

*= exercise for more than 30 min three times each week.
**The score for SF-36 ranges from 0 to 100 where 100 indicates a high HRQOL.
***The QOLS score ranges from 16 to 112 where 112 indicates a high GQOL.
PCS = physical component summary, MCS = mental component summary, QOLS = quality of life scale.
The full model included all of the selected variables entered into the model while the final model included variables in the final step using the backward procedure.

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