Association between combinations of nutritional status and quality of life and food purchasing motives among the elderly in South Korea

Kim, Doyeon; Lim, Hyunjung

doi:10.1186/s12955-020-01434-9

Table 4 Logistic regressions of food purchasing motives according to nutritional status & QOL of the elderly in South Korea (N = 143)^a

From: Association between combinations of nutritional status and quality of life and food purchasing motives among the elderly in South Korea

	Unadjusted^b		Adjusted^c
	OR (95% CI)	P^d,e	OR (95% CI)	P
Taste
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	0.887 (0.289–2.721)	0.834	0.830 (0.207–3.326)	0.793
low nutritional status & high QOL	0.318 (0.110–0.922)	0.035	0.279 (0.083–0.939)	0.039
low nutritional status & low QOL	0.544 (0.222–1.338)	0.185	0.589 (0.192–1.804)	0.354
Ease of chewing
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	3.570 (1.108–11.504)	0.033	6.715 (1.438–31.365)	0.015
low nutritional status & high QOL	1.633 (0.579–4.609)	0.354	1.837 (0.579–5.832)	0.302
low nutritional status & low QOL	1.838 (0.772–4.374)	0.169	1.716 (0.604–4.880)	0.311
Price
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	1.011 (0.315–3.249)	0.985	0.977 (0.219–4.364)	0.976
low nutritional status & high QOL	2.529 (0.625–10.233)	0.193	3.260 (0.722–14.716)	0.124
low nutritional status & low QOL	1.433 (0.522–3.937)	0.485	2.107 (0.572–7.759)	0.263
Ease of opening the package
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	0.538 (0.187–1.552)	0.252	0.279 (0.071–1.099)	0.068
low nutritional status & high QOL	1.010 (0.344–2.962)	0.986	0.698 (0.209–2.334)	0.560
low nutritional status & low QOL	1.005 (0.407–2.480)	0.991	0.536 (0.169–1.700)	0.289
Preventive or treatment effect on disease
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	2.333 (0.244–22.281)	0.462	2.419 (0.207–28.308)	0.481
low nutritional status & high QOL	0.528 (0.119–2.349)	0.402	0.693 (0.140–3.430)	0.653
low nutritional status & low QOL	0.685 (0.178–2.632)	0.582	1.333 (0.267–6.649)	0.726
Nutrition quality
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	2.857 (0.311–26.207)	0.353	2.590 (0.231–29.046)	0.440
low nutritional status & high QOL	1.500 (0.267–8.434)	0.645	3.520 (0.440–28.139)	0.235
low nutritional status & low QOL	0.905 (0.253–3.230)	0.877	2.660 (0.472–15.005)	0.268
Length of cooking time
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	0.512 (0.178–1.471)	0.214	0.585 (0.161–2.127)	0.415
low nutritional status & high QOL	1.386 (0.479–4.011)	0.547	1.768 (0.542–5.770)	0.345
low nutritional status & low QOL	1.027 (0.429–2.455)	0.953	1.499 (0.512–4.387)	0.460
Ease to purchase
high nutritional status & high QOL	1.000		1.000
high nutritional status & low QOL	0.339 (0.112–1.026)	0.055	0.382 (0.100–1.455)	0.159
low nutritional status & high QOL	1.966 (0.551–7.005)	0.297	2.259 (0.602–8.471)	0.227
low nutritional status & low QOL	0.772 (0.308–1.938)	0.582	0.951 (0.324–2.790)	0.927

Abbreviations: MNA mini nutritional assessment, QOL quality of life, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, ref reference
^aNutritional status and QOL are grouped by combinations of each category of nutritional status and QOL
^bUnadjusted result of logistic regression analysis
^cAdjusted for age, sex, marital status, education, income, and number of chronic diseases
^dTrend analysis for the null hypothesis that OR = 1.0 (ref = high nutritional status & high QOL)
^eValues in boldface are significant at p < 0.05

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