Table 3.

Adjusted Odds of Reporting High Importance of Sexual Health Among US Adults

Characteristic	High Importance of Sexual Health to Quality of Life, Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI)a
	Womenb	P Value	Menb	P Value
Age	Not applicable	.02	Not applicable	< .001
Age2	Not applicable	.002	Not applicable	< .001
Sexually active	8.85 (5.78–13.51)	< .001	3.34 (2.27–4.95)	< .001
Race/ethnicity		.22c		.003c
Black, non-Hispanic	1.04 (0.62–1.76)	.88	1.46 (0.90–2.37)	.12
White, non-Hispanic	1.00 [Reference]	—	1.00 [Reference]	—
Other, non-Hispanic	2.12 (0.99–4.53)	.05	0.97 (0.52–1.81)	.93
Hispanic or Latino	1.31 (0.77–2.21)	.32	2.40 (1.46–3.95)	< .001
Health conditions
Arthritis or rheumatism	0.82 (0.55–1.22)	.33	1.31 (0.92–1.87)	.13
Cancer	0.98 (0.48–1.98)	.95	0.73 (0.43–1.21)	.22
Coronary artery disease or heart disease	0.94 (0.49–1.81)	.85	0.88 (0.58–1.33)	.54
Depression or anxiety	1.40 (0.98–2.01)	.07	1.39 (0.99–1.97)	.06
Diabetes mellitus (Type 1 or 2)	0.98 (0.59–1.64)	.95	0.95 (0.63–1.42)	.80
Hypertension	1.24 (0.81–1.89)	.32	0.76 (0.55–1.04)	.09
General self-rated health		< .001c		.002c
Excellent	1.00 [Reference]	—	1.00 [Reference]	—
Very good	0.75 (0.48–1.17)	.21	1.07 (0.73–1.57)	.73
Good	0.36 (0.22–0.58)	< .001	0.59 (0.40–0.88)	.01
Fair/poor	0.50 (0.27–0.91)	.03	0.61 (0.37–1.01)	.05

^aResponse of “very” or “quite a bit” to the item, “How important is sexual health to your quality of life?”

^bListwise deletion of incomplete cases reduced the number of observations in these models by 4% for women and 6% for men.

^cType 3 P value.