Table 3.
Associations between work status, self-rated health, and financial distress
| Self-rated physical health | Self-rated mental health | Self-rated financial distress | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work status | ORa | 95% CI | ORa | 95% CI | ORb | 95% CI |
| Employed (Ref.) | ||||||
| Became employed | 0.90 | 0.48, 1.69 | 0.76 | 0.41, 1.39 | 0.43 | 0.21, 0.87 |
| Became unemployed | 0.52 | 0.24, 1.15 | 0.47 | 0.22, 1.00 | 0.25 | 0.11, 0.56 |
| Unemployed | 0.29 | 0.19, 0.43 | 0.33 | 0.22, 0.48 | 0.30 | 0.19, 0.49 |
| % change | 95% CI | % change | 95% CI | % change | 95% CI | |
| Employed (Ref.) | ||||||
| Became employed | 0.01 | -0.16, 0.19 | -0.20 | -0.40, 0.01 | -0.05 | -0.33, 0.24 |
| Became unemployed | 0.09 | -0.13, 0.30 | 0.19 | -0.07, 0.44 | -0.36 | -0.72, -0.01 |
| Unemployed | -0.05 | -0.16, 0.06 | -0.10 | -0.23, 0.03 | -0.06 | -0.12, 0.24 |
aResponse categories ‘excellent’, ‘very good’, and ‘good’ are merged into one ‘good’ category and ‘very poor’ and ‘poor’ are merged into one ‘poor’ category
bResponse categories ‘very low’, ‘low’, and ‘neutral’ are merged into one ‘low’ category and ‘very high’ and ‘high’ are merged into one ‘high’ category. The values of p < 0.05 are highlighted in bold. Self-rated physical health, self-rated mental health, and self-rated financial distress were separately entered into the multivariate model. The model was adjusted for participants’ sex, age, educational level, and living situation (living alone/not alone)