A Cross-Sectional Study of Self-Rated Health among Older Adults: Association with Drinking Profiles and Other Determinants of Health

Table 3

Regression analysis of self-rated health among men, 55–74 years of age ( = 1,424).

Variables	B	95% confidence intervals
		Lower	Upper
Model 1:
Drinking profiles
Lifetime abst. versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.48	0.20	0.75
Former drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.62	0.44	0.80
Infreq. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.30	0.13	0.46
Freq./nonmod. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.22	0.04	0.40
Model 2 (including control variables):
Drinking profiles
Lifetime abst. versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.29	0.04	0.53
Former drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.25	0.09	0.41
Infreq. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.10	−0.04	0.24
Freq./nonmod. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.04	−0.12	0.20
Demographic variables
Age	0.00	−0.01	0.01
Divorced/separated/widowed versus married/partnered	−0.04	−0.17	0.10
Single/never married versus married/partnered	−0.11	−0.31	0.10
Secondary versus less than secondary	−0.15	−0.30	−0.01
Some post-secondary versus less than secondary	−0.17	−0.32	−0.01
University degree versus less than secondary	−0.25	−0.40	−0.10
Retired versus working for pay	0.22	0.09	0.35
Other versus working for pay	0.78	0.54	1.01
Psychosocial variables
Having at least one confidant	−0.06	−0.19	0.06
Member of voluntary org./ass.	−0.07	−0.18	0.04
Self-rated psychological health	0.48	0.43	0.54
(1 = excellent to 5 = poor)
Health-related variables
Underweight versus normal weight	0.40	−0.30	1.12
Overweight versus normal weight	0.14	0.02	0.26
Obese versus normal weight	0.52	0.37	0.68
Smoked prior to last 12 months versus never smoked	0.08	−0.05	0.20
Smoked within last 12 months versus never smoked	0.31	0.16	0.46
Tranquilizer/antidep. use	0.13	−0.06	0.32
Sleeping pill use	0.21	0.01	0.40

p < 0.05, p < 0.01, p < 0.001.
Note. B: unstandardized coefficients. Higher scores mean worse self-rated health.