Table 3. Association between Social Support (satisfactory vs. unsatisfactory) and depression, self-perceived health, marital status and chronic illnesses (n = 179).
| Variable | Satisfactory SS | Unsatisfactory SS | Bivariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||
| n (%) | n (%) | p- value | crude OR (CI) | p- value | adjusted OR (CI) | |
| SPH | ||||||
| VG/Good | 78 (58.6%) | 21 (21.2%) | 0.0391 | 3.04 (1.11–8.30) | 0.39 | 1.88 (0.62–5.68) |
| Not very good | 44 (33.1%) | 16 (26.7%) | 2.25 (0.78–6.43) | 1.61 (0.53–4.91) | ||
| VB/Bad | 11 (11.0%) | 9 (45.0%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Depression | ||||||
| No | 102 (76.7%) | 25 (54.3%) | 0.0052 | 2.76 (1.36–5.59 | 0.03 | 2.32 (1.07–5.02) |
| Yes | 31 (23.3%) | 21 (45.7%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Marital status | ||||||
| Married | 66 (49.6%) | 15 (32.6%) | 0.042 | 2.03(1.01–4.19) | 0.08 | 1.92 (0.92–3.97) |
| Single/widow(er) | 67 (50.4%) | 31 (67.4%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Osteoarthritis | ||||||
| No | 81 (60.9%) | 20 (43.5%) | 0.042 | 2.02 (1.02–3.99) | ||
| Yes | 52 (39.1%) | 26 (56.5%) | 1.00 | – | – | |
| Diabetes | ||||||
| No | 89 (66.9% | 34 (73.9%) | 0.372 | 1.41 (0.66–2.96) | – | – |
| Yes | 44 (33.1%) | 12 (26.1%) | 1.00 | |||
| Hypertension | ||||||
| No | 21 (15.8%) | 8 (17.4%) | 0.792 | 0.89 (0.36–2.17) | – | – |
| Yes | 112 (84.2%) | 38 (82.6%) | 1.00 | |||
| CAD | ||||||
| No | 121 (91%) | 40 (87.0%) | 0.432 | 1.52 (0.53–4.29) | ||
| Yes | 12 (9.0%) | 6 (13.0%) | 1.00 | – | – | |
SPH, self-perceived health; CAD, coronary artery disease; CI, Confidence Interval; VG, very good; VB, very bad; OR, Odds Ratio;
1
Linear trend chi-square;
2
Chi-square; significance level set for the analyses – p value <0.05.