Table 8.

Food Insecurity status: Associations with Health-related Quality of Life.

Variables	Food Security	Food Insecurity	Crude OR (95% CI)	Adjusted OR* (95% CI)
Health-Related Quality of Life - EQ5D-3L score (n = 1715)	Mean ± SD: 0.683 ± 0.318 Medium: 0.693 Minimum: −0.438 Maximum: 1	Mean ± SD: 0.511 ± 0.336 Medium: 0.536 Minimum: −0.344 Maximum: 1	0.212 (0.210–0.214)	0.251 (0.248–0.254)
Self-perception of general health status (n = 1715)	Mean ± SD: 70.06 ± 19.79 Medium: 70 Minimum: 0 Maximum: 100	Mean ± SD: 59.33 ± 22.02 Medium: 60 Minimum: 0 Maximum: 100	0.976 (0.976–0.976)	0.979 (0.978–0.979)

^*Adjusted Odds Ratio to gender, age, education level, and health region.

All means were weighted for correcting to population representativeness.