Table 2.

Adjusted odds ratio (OR) of reported poor health status in Thai elderly people, by selected variables

		Odds Ratio
		Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Age group	60-69 years (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	70-79 years	1.46***	1.42***	1.20***	1.22***
	80 years or +	2.02***	2.06***	1.26***	1.30***
Sex	Male (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Female	1.18***	1.09**	1.01	0.99
Place of residence	Rural (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Urban	1.02	1.09**	1.09**	1.04
Level of education	Higher than secondary (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Secondary level	1.66***	1.59***	1.48***	1.47***
	Primary/elementary level	2.33***	2.35***	2.12***	2.01***
	No schooling	2.47***	2.54***	2.13***	2.02***
Marital status	Married (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Separated/divorced	1.22*	1.22*	1.16	1.09
	Widowed	1.03	1.00	0.95	0.92**
	Single	1.23**	1.28***	1.24**	1.24**
Working status during the past 7 days	Work (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Do not work	1.80***	1.61***	1.36***	1.36***
Average total income per year	100,000 Baht or more (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	30,000-99,999 Baht	1.17***	1.22***	1.23***	1.17***
	10,000-29,999 Baht	1.38***	1.47***	1.45***	1.34***
	Less than 10,000 Baht	1.78***	1.93***	1.80***	1.62***
Living arrangement	Living with children (ref.)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Spouse	.97	0.94	0.97	0.95
	Alone	.86**	0.88*	0.90*	0.88*
	Other	.94	0.94	0.95	0.94
Number of chronic diseases	No disease (ref.)	-	1.00	1.00	1.00
	1 disease	-	2.00***	1.89***	1.83***
	2 diseases	-	2.93***	2.57***	2.43***
	3 or more diseases	-	5.51***	4.03***	3.71***
Functional Status	Able to do all ADLs (ref.)	-	-	1.00	1.00
	Difficulty in 1 and 2 ADLs	-	-	1.79***	1.71***
	Difficulty in 3 or more ADLs	-	-	3.71***	3.32***
Psychosocial symptoms	No symptom (ref.)	-	-	-	1.00
	1-2 symptoms	-	-	-	1.57***
	3-4 symptoms	-	-	-	2.19***
	5 or more symptoms	-	-	-	2.68***
Intercept		.23***	.17***	.19***	0.14***
-2 Log likelihood		39265.5	37940.6	36815.4	35995.5
Cox & Snell R Square		0.077	0.116	0.148	0.171

Note: *** = p < .001, ** = p < .01, * = p < .05