Table 3.

Association between Health Behaviors and Health Status Outcomes (adjusted for selected covariates) for Cancer Survivors from the National Health Interview Survey (2006–2010)

	Fair/Poor Self-Reported Health OR (95% CI)	Unemployed Due to Health OR (95% CI)
Body Mass Index
<25.0	ref	ref
25.0–29.9	0.93 (0.80–1.08)	1.11 (0.90–1.39)
30.0+	1.50 (1.28–1.75)	1.68 (1.35–2.09)
Smoking
Never	ref	ref
Past	1.12 (0.97–1.29)	1.05 (0.83–1.32)
Current	1.76 (1.46–2.13)	1.93 (1.50–2.49)
Leisure Physical Activity #
Sufficiently Active	ref	ref
Insufficiently active	1.14 (0.90–1.44)	1.29 (0.94–1.76)
Inactive	2.56 (2.07–3.16)	2.72 (2.02–3.66)
Alcohol Use ±
Lifetime abstainer	ref	ref
Former	1.05 (0.88–1.25)	1.25 (1.00–1.57)
Current Infrequent	0.61 (0.50–0.76)	0.67 (0.49–0.91)
Current Light	0.44 (0.36–0.54)	0.45 (0.34–0.61)
Current Moderate	0.44 (0.33–0.57)	0.38 (0.26–0.55)
Current Heavy	0.47 (0.32–0.68)	0.52 (0.33–0.82)

Each model was adjusted for age, gender, marital status, race/ethnicity, education, geographic region, health insurance (self-reported health only), cancer type, and time since first cancer diagnosis. Odds ratios that are statistically significant, p<.05, are shown in bold.

^#Inactive (no leisure-time aerobic activity that lasted at least 10 minutes), insufficiently active (aerobic activities for at least 10 minutes but less than 150 minutes per week), or sufficiently active (moderate-intensity leisure-time physical activity at least 150 minutes or vigorous-intensity leisure-time physical activity at least 75 minutes per week).

^±Lifetime abstainer (less than 12 drinks in lifetime), former (12 or more drinks in lifetime, but none in the past year), current infrequent (1–11 drinks in past year), current light (≤3 drinks per week in past year), current moderate (4–14 drinks per week for men and 4–7 drinks per week for women), and current heavy (≥14 drinks per week for men, and ≥7 drinks per week for women).