. 2015 Dec 31;5(4):237–251. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.212

Table A2.2. Multinominal Logistic Regression for Excessive Alcohol Use .

Explanatory Variables	Stop Excessive Alcohol Use			Continue Excessive Alcohol Use			Start Excessive Alcohol Use
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
	OR	Lower	Upper	OR	Lower	Upper	OR	Lower	Upper
Age 56-64	1.47^a	0.98	2.21	1.24	0.73	2.11	1.54	0.75	3.19
Age 65-74	1.02	0.62	1.67	1.02	0.55	1.89	0.95	0.40	2.28
Age ≥75	0.67	0.34	1.33	0.54	0.23	1.29	0.24^a	0.05	1.14
Gender	0.70^b	0.50	0.99	0.31^c	0.19	0.50	0.33^c	0.17	0.63
Marital status	1.09	0.67	1.77	1.44	0.75	2.77	0.54^a	0.26	1.11
Change in marital status	0.76	0.26	2.20	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.67	0.08	5.35
Education	1.15	0.94	1.40	1.11	0.87	1.43	1.37^a	0.96	1.94
Annual HH gross income quintile	1.10	0.93	1.30	1.05	0.84	1.31	0.92	0.68	1.26
Perceived health	1.19^a	0.99	1.44	0.94	0.73	1.21	0.96	0.68	1.36
Better perceived health	0.78	0.38	1.63	1.09	0.47	2.53	0.90	0.26	3.11
Worse perceived health	1.20	0.79	1.83	0.88	0.51	1.53	1.47	0.71	3.02
GALI	0.94	0.56	1.55	1.07	0.56	2.02	0.77	0.32	1.88
Non-limited GALI	1.07	0.59	1.94	1.17	0.57	2.40	1.45	0.52	4.00
Limited GALI	1.60^b	1.02	2.50	1.88^b	1.06	3.34	1.28	0.56	2.94
Health insurance deductible	1.06	0.91	1.25	0.99	0.80	1.22	1.02	0.77	1.35
Private insurance	0.23^b	0.07	0.73	1.24	0.37	4.18	0.52	0.09	3.05
Better health insurance coverage	1.04	0.64	1.69	0.43^a	0.18	1.02	1.17	0.50	2.75
Worse health insurance coverage	0.66	0.32	1.35	1.80^a	0.93	3.51	1.59	0.60	4.25
Interaction
HH income quintile* Private insurance	1.48^c	1.11	1.97	1.04	0.75	1.45	1.24	0.77	2.01
N (included in analysis)	1533

Abbreviation: GALI, Global Activity Limitation Index.

^aSignificant at 10% level; ^bSignificant at 5% level; ^cSignificant at 1% level.

The base group for multinominal regression is those who are not excessive alcohol users in 2004 and 2007, Age groups are compared to age ≤55.