Table 3.

Health satisfaction. Estimation of odds ratio (OR), 95% confidence interval (C.I), and p-value from longitudinal random effects model

Covariate	Reference category	OR	95% CI	p-value
Sex	Female vs Male	0.801	0.671 – 0.957	0.015
Spouse	No vs Yes	0.746	0.634 – 0.891	0.001
Education	Elementary vs No education	1.014	0.841 – 1.223	0.883
	Middle or more vs No education	1.431	1.177 – 1.74	0.0003
Physical health	Good vs Poor	22.4	19.49 – 25.76	<0.0001
Sex by Mental healtha	female/good vs male/good	1.009	0.818 – 1.245	0.933
	female/poor vs male/poor	0.636	0.503 – 0.804	0.0002
	female/good vs female/poor	4.293	3.52 – 5.235	<0.0001
	male/good vs male/poor	2.708	2.248 – 3.61	<0.0001
	female/good vs male/poor	2.732	2.197 – 3.398	<0.0001
	male/good vs female/poor	4.255	3.372 – 5.369	<0.0001

^aThe model has a significant interaction