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. 2023 Jun 27;9:e44486. doi: 10.2196/44486

Table 3.

The association between family health and frailty for participants aged ≥60 years explored by ordered logistic regression.


Model 1 Model 2

ORa (95% CI) P value OR (95% CI) P value
Family health 0.93 (0.91-0.94) <.001 0.94 (0.93-0.96) <.001
Age 1.05 (1.04-1.07) <.001 1.05 (1.04-1.06) <.001
Sex (refb: male) 1.13 (0.98-1.31) .08 1.15 (0.99-1.35) .07
BMI 0.99 (0.97-1.01) .22 0.99 (0.97-1.01) .45
Family type (ref: core family)

Backbone family 0.70 (0.54-0.90) .005 0.65 (0.5-0.84) .001

Joint family 1.08 (0.75-1.56) .67 0.95 (0.66-1.37) .79

Conjugal family 0.61 (0.46-0.81) .001 0.59 (0.44-0.79) <.001

Single-parent family 1.01 (0.63-1.60) .98 0.88 (0.55-1.42) .60

Other 0.94 (0.65-1.36) .74 0.84 (0.57-1.22) .36
Residence (ref: urban) 1.31 (1.13-1.52) <.001 1.24 (1.06-1.45) .006
Marital status (ref: married) 1.06 (0.83-1.34) .65 1.05 (0.82-1.34) .70
Number of children (ref: 0)

1 0.70 (0.52-0.96) .03 0.95 (0.69-1.32) .78

2 0.66 (0.48-0.90) .009 0.98 (0.7-1.37) .92

≥3 0.59 (0.43-0.82) .001 0.86 (0.61-1.22) .41
Self-rated health 0.98 (0.97-0.98) <.001 0.98 (0.98-0.98) <.001
Public insurance coverage (ref: not covered) 0.53 (0.41-0.69) <.001 0.6 (0.46-0.78) <.001
Health literacy N/Ac N/A 0.98 (0.96-0.99) .01
Smoking status (ref: smoke) N/A N/A 0.76 (0.61-0.93) .009
Alcohol intake (ref: drink) N/A N/A 1.04 (0.83-1.30) .74
Physical exercise (ref: <150 min/wk) N/A N/A 0.57 (0.47-0.70) <.001
Sleep duration per night (ref: <5 hours)

5-6 hours N/A N/A 0.64 (0.48-0.87) .004

6-7 hours N/A N/A 0.42 (0.31-0.56) <.001

>7 hours N/A N/A 0.31 (0.23-0.41) <.001
Have breakfast every day (ref: no) N/A N/A 0.63 (0.52-0.75) <.001
Pseudo R2 0.121 N/A 0.16 N/A
Akaike information criterion 5013.02 N/A 4833.66 N/A
Bayesian information criterion 5125.19 N/A 4995.69 N/A

aOR: odds ratio.

bref: reference.

cN/A: not applicable.