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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2008 Apr 28;20(5):545–559. doi: 10.1177/0898264308317538

Table 4.

Bivariate Longitudinal Analyses of Religiousness Predictors and Willingness to Accept Risk Associated With Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatmenta

Low-Burden Treatment
 High-Burden Treatment
Predictor Variable Odds Ratio 95% CI p Value Odds Ratio 95% CI p Value
Religious attendance (once a month or more vs. less frequently) 1.35 0.78, 2.34 .28 1.79 1.03, 3.10 .04
Religious identity (deeply religious vs. less religious) 0.75 0.46, 1.21 .24 0.68 0.42, 110 .12
Religious comfort (a great deal vs. little or none) 1.22 0.78, 1.90 .39 0.93 0.60, 1.46 .77
Grown closer to god (yes vs. no) 1.78 1.18, 2.69 .01 1.32 0.87, 2.01 .19
Grown spiritually (yes vs. no) 1.50 0.98, 2.28 .06 1.14 0.75, 1.74 .53
a

These are longitudinal continuation ratio models with random intercepts including only structural covariates specific to continuation ratio models and months of follow-up variable characteristic of longitudinal models.