Table 5.
Concurrent validity: Marginal effects from the 2005 EAT scores and 2005 person-level expenditures regression analyses.
| Section II: ECM model, among users (N=5452) | ||||||||
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| Parameter | Parameter Estimate | Odds Ratio | p-value | Marginal Effect* | ||||
| Nutrition and Weight Management Score | ||||||||
| Absenteeism | -0.0355 | 0.9651 | 0.0000 | -$35.60 | ||||
| Total medical | -0.0074 | 0.9926 | 0.1734 | -$26.21 | ||||
| Inpatient | -0.0038 | 0.9962 | 0.8598 | -$14.78 | ||||
| Emergency room | -0.0180 | 0.9821 | 0.0667 | -$1.05 | ||||
| Outpatient | -0.0118 | 0.9882 | 0.0380 | -$21.55 | ||||
| Pharmacy | 0.0103 | 1.0103 | 0.0681 | $7.12 | ||||
| Organizational Support Score |
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| Absenteeism | -0.0321 | 0.9685 | 0.0000 | -$25.06 | ||||
| Total medical | 0.0054 | 1.0054 | 0.4921 | $15.70 | ||||
| Inpatient | 0.0450 | 1.0460 | 0.0937 | -$9.63 | ||||
| Emergency room | 0.0198 | 1.0200 | 0.1552 | -$2.24 | ||||
| Outpatient | 0.0115 | 1.0116 | 0.1646 | $15.05 | ||||
| Pharmacy | 0.0016 | 1.0016 | 0.8420 | -$1.02 | ||||
| Physical Activities Score |
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| Absenteeism | 0.0070 | 1.0070 | 0.2244 | -$25.45 | ||||
| Total medical | -0.0261 | 0.9742 | 0.0000 | -$87.91 | ||||
| Inpatient | -0.0090 | 0.9910 | 0.6750 | -$24.29 | ||||
| Emergency room | -0.0032 | 0.9968 | 0.7411 | -$0.14 | ||||
| Outpatient | -0.0213 | 0.9789 | 0.0003 | -$47.25 | ||||
| Pharmacy | -0.0009 | 0.9991 | 0.8797 | -$0.37 | ||||
Control variables: age, gender, location, and comorbidities
*
Marginal effects show the estimated change in expenditures per 1-unit increase in EAT scores