Table 2.

Age and sex adjusted for associations between health status and family structure

	Alone			Couple			Nuclear family			Extended family
	OR	95% CI	p value	OR	95% CI	p value	OR	95% CI	p value
Health-related Quality of Life Measures
Perceived Physical Fatigue										Ref.
Very often	2.78	0.72 – 10.75	0.139	1.02	0.24 – 4.33	0.979	2.36	0.92 – 6.03	0.074	1.0
Perceived Mental Stress
Very often	2.50	0.88 – 7.11	0.086	0.95	0.33 – 2.70	0.920	1.38	0.68 – 2.79	0.372
Perceived Health Concern
Very often	1.58	0.37 – 6.66	0.533	1.38	0.42 – 4.46	0.594	0.84	0.30 – 2.35	0.733
Mental Health Status
Poor [GHQ 4]	3.15	1.20 – 8.15	0.018	0.82	0.31 – 2.14	0.678	1.11	0.59 – 2.09	0.740
Physiological Health Measures
Hypertension
Severe Hypertension [sbp 180 and dbp 110]	8.25	1.87 – 36.35	0.005	4.90	1.41 – 17.09	0.013	1.61	0.45 – 5.79	0.466
Hypertensive [sbp 140 or dbp 90]	0.85	0.27 – 2.64	0.778	1.62	0.63 – 4.13	0.313	1.21	0.62 – 2.35	0.579
	β	[95% CI] mm/Hg	p value	β	[95% CI] mm/Hg	p value	β	[95% CI] mm/Hg	p value
Systolic blood pressure	9.86	-0.28 – 20.00	0.057	12.54	4.65 – 20.42	0.002	4.30	1.70 – 10.3	0.159	Ref. 0.0
Diastolic blood pressure	7.11	0.57 – 13.66	0.030	3.30	-1.88 – 8.39	0.200	0.14	-3.74 – 4.02	0.940
Body Mass Index	-1.04	-2.28 – 0.21	0.102	0.48	-0.51 – 1.47	0.342	0.47	-0.26 – 1.19	0.205