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Published in final edited form as: Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2022 Dec 21;40(11):1182–1189. doi: 10.1177/10499091221146255

Table 2.

Summary of Logistic Regression Predicting Living Will Across Cognitive Levels.

Predictor	Dementia N = 844			Cognitive Impairment N = 3080			Normal N = 13,774
Predictor	OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P	OR	95% CI	P
Race
White	1.00		.048	1.00		<.0001	1.00		<.0001
African American	.41	[.20, .87]		.32	[.25, .40]		.39	[.30, .51]
Other	1.81	[.35, 9.46]		.62	[.39, .99]		.70	[.45, 1.08]
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic	1.00		.003	1.00		<.0001	1.00		<.0001
Hispanic	.17	[.05, .54]		.26	[.18, .35]		.29	[.20, 0,41]
Education
Highschool or less	1.00		.004	1.00		<.0001	1.00		<.0001
Some college	5.16	[1.74, 15.32]		2.14	[1.61, 2.85]		1.61	[1.32, 1.98]
College (4 years)	4.09	[.94, 17.79]		2.21	[1.63, 2.98]		2.14	[1.79, 2.55]
Gender	NS^a			NS^a
Female							1.00
Male							.77	[.66, .91]	.0015
Marital status
Married	NS^a			NS^a			1.00		.006
Divorced/Separated	NS^a			NS^a			.97	[.76, 1.23]
Widowed	NS^a			NS^a			1.37	[1.12, 1.68]
Never married	NS^a			NS^a			.75	[.45, 1.23]
Loneliness score	1.84	[.91, 3.68]	.09	NS^a			.74	[.62, .88]	.001
Number of chronic diseases									.002
0	NS^a			NS^a			1.00
1-3	NS^a			NS^a			1.51	[1.13, 2.02]
4+	NS^a			NS^a			1.78	[1.29, 2.46]

^a

NS-Not Significant: Variables were removed for the final model.