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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2017 Jan 18;176:34–41. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.022

Table 3. Multivariable Adjusted Association of Each Disaster Damage with Change in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scores among the Survivors from the Disaster in Japan (N=3,547).

Characteristics Coefficient SE 95%CI p-value
Age (continuous) -0.11 0.006 -0.12, -0.10 <.0001
Loss of family and friends
 No loss reference
 Loss of family members 0.07 0.08 -0.09 0.23 0.39
 Loss of friends 0.10 0.11 -0.11 0.31 0.37
 Both 0.19 0.16 -0.13 0.51 0.24
Loss of pet(s)
 Had no pets 0.09 0.08 -0.07 0.25 0.27
 No pet loss reference
 Lost dog(s) -0.17 0.24 -0.64 0.30 0.49
 Lost cat(s) -0.42 0.28 -0.97 0.13 0.13
 Lost other pets -0.34 0.47 -1.25 0.58 0.47
House damage
 Entirely destroyed -0.67 0.17 -0.99 -0.34 <.0001
 Largely destroyed -0.26 0.18 -0.61 0.09 0.15
 Half destroyed -0.11 0.13 -0.37 0.15 0.40
 Partly destroyed -0.05 0.07 -0.19 0.09 0.48
 No damage reference
Car damage
 Lost cars -0.18 0.10 -0.37 0.02 0.08
 Did not have cars at that time 0.12 0.11 -0.09 0.34 0.25
 No damage of cars reference
Job loss
 Lost jobs, but have restarted the same job 0.23 0.28 -0.31 0.77 0.40
 Have lost jobs -0.36 0.18 -0.72 -0.01 0.045
 Have not been working -0.28 0.09 -0.46 -0.11 0.0016
 Have been working reference
 Have started a new job after the disaster -0.29 0.38 -1.03 0.45 0.44
Disruption of access to medical service
 Dentistry 0.22 0.23 -0.23, 0.67 0.35
 Internal Medicine -0.40 0.16 -0.71, -0.092 0.011
 Orthopedics 0.027 0.21 -0.39, 0.44 0.90
 Ophthalmology -0.10 0.23 -0.55, 0.35 0.65
 Psychiatry -0.71 0.45 -1.60, 0.18 0.12
 Either -0.13 0.11 -0.36, 0.090 0.24

Note. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). SE: standard error.

a

Age, sex, marital status, educational attainment, income, self-rated health, BMI, smoking status, drinking status, history of diseases, frequency of informal socializing with neighbors and IADL score in 2010 were adjusted in the multivariable analysis.

b

Other types of disaster damage were not simultaneously included in the same model.