Population Health Metrics

Table 4 The Influence of Sex, Age, Education and Diseases on SF-36 Combined Score by Logistic Regression Analyses.

From: Severity of self-reported diseases and symptoms in Denmark

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3
Explanatory variables	Socio-demographic group			Disease group			Socio-economy and diseases
	B	S.E.	Sig.	B	S.E.	Sig.	B	S.E.	Sig.
Constant	-0.675	0.103	0.000	0.521	0.107	0.000	0.377	0.136	0.005
Sex	0.511	0.069	0.000	0.549	0.073	0.000	0.501	0.075	0.000
Age (years)
16–24	1.518	0.141	0.000	1.187	0.139	0.000	1.081	0.155	0.000
25–44	1.174	0.104	0.000	0.932	0.113	0.000	0.829	0.118	0.000
45–64	0.805	0.103	0.000	0.712	0.113	0.000	0.664	0.116	0.000
Socio-economic group
Education	0.568	0.083	0.000				0.306	0.120	0.011
Disease
Cardiovascular				-1.245	0.160	0.000	-1.107	0.286	0.000
Malignant neoplasm				-0.854	0.304	0.005	-2.484	1.094	0.023
Endocrine diseases				-0.819	0.211	0.000	-1.016	0.442	0.022
Psychiatric disorders				-2.370	0.331	0.000	-2.486	0.791	0.002
Nervous system				-0.805	0.158	0.000	-0.471	0.314	0.133
Respiratory diseases				-0.948	0.147	0.000	-1.842	0.358	0.000
Digestive diseases				-1.051	0.218	0.000	-0.959	0.414	0.020
Genito-Urinary diseases				-0.749	0.368	0.042	-0.905	0.927	0.329
Skin diseases				-0.454	0.244	0.063	-0.380	0.574	0.508
Muscular-skeletal diseases				-1.469	0.094	0.000	-1.817	0.201	0.000
Injuries				-0.607	0.191	0.002	0.045	0.461	0.922
Other diseases				-0.999	0.162	0.000	-1.832	0.450	0.000
Interaction:
ISCED * Respiratory							1.219	0.400	0.002
ISCED * Muscular-skeletal							0.485	0.230	0.035

Coding
Sex: female = 0, male = 1
Age: baseline category: 65+
ISCED: low = 0, high = 1
SF-36 comb: score 0–79 = 0, score 80–100 = 1

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