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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 3.

Summary of Logistic Regression Predicting Durable Power of Attorney Across Cognitive Levels.

Cognitive Level	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		.0008	1.00		<.0001	1.00		<.0001
African American	.27	[.13, .54]		.47	[.37, .59]		.48	[.40, .56]
Other	1.92	[.46, 8.03]		.74	[.48, 1.14]		.79	[.60, 1.05]
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic	1.00		.0002	1.00		<.0001	1.00		<.0001
Hispanic	.16	[.06, .41]		.34	[.25, .45]		.39	[.31, .49]
Age	NS^a						1.07	[1.06, 1.08]	<.0001
Education
Highschool or less	NS^a			1.00		<.0001	1.00		<.0001
Some college				1.68	[1.28, 2.22]		1.39	[1.21, 1.59]
College (4 yrs)				2.78	[2.02, 3.72]		1.99	[1.76, 2.24]
Gender	NS^a			NS^a
Female							1.00		<.0001
Male							.79	[.71, .88]
Marital status	NS^a								.001
Married				1.00		<.0001
Divorced/Separated				1.13	[.85, 1.51]		.89	[.76, 1.04]
Widowed				1.93	[1.57, 2.38]		1.21	[1.06, 1.38]
Never married				.63	[.33, 1.19]		.78	[.56, 1.08]
Loneliness score	2.29	[1.18, 4.41]	.0137	NS^a			NS^a
Number of chronic diseases
0 chronic disease	1.00		.0391	1.00		.04	1.00		.003
1-3 chronic disease	4.28	[.49, 37.28]		1.56	[.91, 2.67]		1.40	[1.15, 1.72]
4 and more chronic disease	8.22	[.92, 73.08]		1.87	[1.08, 3.24]		1.46	[1.17, 1.82]

NS-Not Significant: Variables demonstrated a crude relationship with the outcome but were not significant in the full model. They were removed for the final model.