Fig. 1

Comparison of food purchasing motives by nutritional status, QOL, and nutritional status & QOL combinations in the elderly in South Korea. a: High nutritional status, solid line; low nutritional status, dotted line. b: high QOL (≥50%); low QOL (< 50%), dotted line. c: high nutritional status & high QOL, solid line; low nutritional status & low QOL, dotted line. ^aFood purchasing motives were selected by the ranking among items. Motivations were rated by 1 (‘not at all important’), 2 (‘a little important’), 3 (‘neutral’), 4 (‘moderately important’), and 5 (‘very important’) scale. ^b MNA was categoried by score: high nutritional status (MNA ≥ 24) and low nutritional status (MNA < 24). ^c QOL, assessed score using the SF-36, was categoried by percentage: high (≥ 50%) and low (< 50%).^dNutritional status and QOL was grouped by combinations of each category of MNA and QOL: high nutritional status & high QOL, low nutritional status & low QOL. *P < 0.05, between-group difference was significant