Exploratory analysis of health-related quality of life among the empty-nest elderly in rural China: An empirical study in three economically developed cities in eastern China

Table 5 Multinomial logistic regression of EQ-5D

		M	SC	UA	PD	AD
		Coefficient	Coefficient	Coefficient	Coefficient	Coefficient
No problem	Gender (Female = 0)	0.111	0.400	0.565	-0.015	0.553*
	Age	-0.017	-0.039	-0.055*	-0.039	0.002
	Primary school (illiteracy = 0)	1.152*	0.698	1.235**	1.188*	0.841*
	Middle school (illiteracy = 0)	3.537***	3.050***	3.197***	3.220***	3.458***
	High school or junior colleges and above (illiteracy = 0)	7.289***	6.072***	5.596***	5.876***	6.637***
	Not widowed (others = 0)	-0.491	0.086	0.296	0.133	0.002
	Widowed (others = 0))	-0.824	0.513	0.442	-0.146	0.421
Some problems	Gender (Female = 0)	-0.175	-0.015	0.012	-0.135	0.328
	Age	0.008	-0.006	0.008	-0.008	0.010
	Primary school (illiteracy = 0)	0.884***	0.321	0.962***	0.692***	0.742***
	Middle school (illiteracy = 0)	2.398***	1.593***	2.406***	1.812***	1.500***
	High school or junior colleges and above (illiteracy = 0)	4.479***	3.104***	3.832***	3.101***	4.218***
	Not widowed (others = 0)	0.003	-0.273	-0.003	0.008	0.355
	Widowed (others = 0))	0.014	-0.064	0.113	0.061	0.581

Note: ***indicates p < 0. 001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0. 05. In EQ-5D, M refers to mobility; SC refers to self-care; UA refers to usual activities; PD refers to pain/discomfort; AD refers to anxiety/depression.

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