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

Table 4

Regression analysis of self-rated health among women, 55–74 years of age ( = 2,106).

Variables	B	95% confidence intervals
		Lower	Upper
Model 1:
Drinking profiles
Lifetime abst. versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.60	0.43	0.76
Former drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.75	0.60	0.90
Infreq. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.37	0.24	0.50
Freq./nonmod. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.34	0.08	0.60
Model 2 (including control variables):
Drinking profiles
Lifetime abst. versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.33	0.18	0.48
Former drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.41	0.28	0.54
Infreq. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.20	0.09	0.31
Freq./nonmod. drinkers versus freq./mod. drinkers	0.09	−0.13	0.32
Demographic variables
Age	0.00	−0.01	0.01
Divorced/separated/widowed versus married/partnered	0.01	−0.08	0.10
Single/never married versus married/partnered	0.08	−0.08	0.24
Secondary versus less than secondary	−0.12	−0.23	−0.01
Some post-secondary versus less than secondary	−0.07	−0.19	0.05
University degree versus less than secondary	−0.17	−0.31	−0.04
Retired versus working for pay	0.16	0.05	0.27
Other versus working for pay	0.48	0.34	0.62
Psychosocial variables
Having at least one confidant	−0.09	−0.23	0.05
Member of voluntary org./ass.	−0.03	−0.11	0.06
Self-rated psychological health	0.45	0.41	0.50
(1 = excellent to 5 = poor)
Health-related variables
Underweight versus normal weight	0.10	−0.20	0.41
Overweight versus normal weight	0.12	0.03	0.22
Obese versus normal weight	0.42	0.30	0.54
Smoked prior to last 12 months versus never smoked	0.08	−0.01	0.18
Smoked within last 12 months versus never smoked	0.17	0.05	0.28
Tranquilizer/antidep. use	0.32	0.19	0.44
Sleeping pill use	0.26	0.12	0.39

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