Loss and psychosocial factors as determinants of quality of life in a cohort of earthquake survivors

Table 4 Ordinal logistic regression model on determinants of difficulties reported on each of five subscales (domains) of quality of life among 1988 Spitak earthquake survivors

	Subscales (domains) of QOL
	Odds Ratio of reporting worse on the QOL’s domains
Variables	Mobility	Self-care	Usual activity	Pain/Discomfort	Anxiety/Depression
Age in 2012 (years)	1.07*	1.08*	1.05*	1.03*	1.01
Earthquake related material loss
None to minimum	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Moderate	1.57*	1.67*	1.53*	1.09	1.62*
Severe	1.86*	2.85*	1.49	1.69¶	2.69*
Post-earthquake. financial/material aid	1.19	1.46	1.21	1.09	1.07
Post-earthquake. financial/material aid among those with severe material loss	0.67	0.21*	0.40*	0.86	0.44*
Social support score	0.91*	0.94*	0.91*	0.96*	0.93*
Number of physical illnesses	1.30*	1.25*	1.26*	1.38*	1.24*
PTSD in 2012^a	1.22	1.83*	2.36*	1.24	2.04*
Depression in 2012^a	1.42¶	1.68*	1.73*	1.72*	3.46*
Anxiety in 2012^a	1.55*	1.22	1.03	2.06*	3.35*

Note: In addition to the variables included in the table, we controlled for all variables which had a p-value <0.25 in the Table 3; including alcohol abuse in 2012, length of education, and socio-economic status in 2012 (all these variables were insignificant in the model).
*p-value <0.05.
^¶p-value <0.10.
^aHaving a score equal/above the selected cut-off level.

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