Table 5. Factors associated with communicating about ADs.
(n = 5111, OR’s, 95%-CI’s).
| Talked with family* | Talked with physician* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | univariable | multivariable | univariable | multivariable |
| Gender | ||||
| - Male | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| - Female | 1.0 (0.9–1.1) | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 1.1 (1.0–1.2) | |
| Age (per year) | 1.00 (1.00–1.01) | 1.03 (1.03–1.04) | 1.02 (1.02–1.03) | |
| Marital status | ||||
| - Married | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| - Living together | 1.4 (1.2–1.8) | 1.5 (1.2–1.9) | 1.0 (0.8–1.3) | |
| - Partner otherwise | 1.1 (0.9–1.4) | 1.2 (0.9–1.4) | 1.0 (0.7–1.3) | |
| - Divorced | 0.6 (0.5–0.7) | 0.5 (0.4–0.6) | 1.5 (1.2–1.8) | |
| - Widowed | 0.8 (0.7–0.8) | 0.6 (0.5–0.6) | 1.7 (1.5–2.0) | |
| - Single otherwise | 0.3 (0.3–0.3) | 0.4 (0.3–0.5) | 1.2 (1.0–1.5) | |
| Children | ||||
| - Children, good relation | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| - Children, bad relation with some or all | 0.9 (0.8–1.1) | 0.9 (0.8–1.0) | 1.4 (1.2–1.6) | |
| - No children | 0.5 (0.4–0.5) | 0.5 (0.5–0.6) | 0.9 (0.8–1.0) | |
| - Otherwise | 0.7 (0.5–1.0) | 0.7 (0.5–0.9) | 1.0 (0.7–1.5) | |
| Residing in | ||||
| - Own home | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| - Otherwise (e.g. Nursing-home, sheltered living) | 1.2 (1.0–1.4) | 1.3 (1.1–1.6) | 2.0 (1.7–2.4) | 1.3 (1.0–1.5) |
| Education | ||||
| - Higher | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| - Secondary | 1.0 (0.9–1.1) | 0.8 (0.7–1.0) | 0.8 (0.7–0.9) | |
| - Elementary or basic vocational | 0.9 (0.8–1.0) | 1.0 (0.8–1.1) | 0.9 (0.8–1.1) | |
| Belief and its importance in someone’s life | ||||
| - Important belief | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| - Not important belief or no belief | 1.4 (1.3–1.5) | 0.9 (0.8–1.0) | 1.3 (1.2–1.5) | |
| Memberschip of association | ||||
| - Member of NVVE | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| - Member of NPV | 0.5 (0.5–0.6) | 0.4 (0.4–0.5) | 0.5 (0.4–0.5) | 0.6 (0.5–0.6) |
| Experienced health | ||||
| - Very good | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| - Good | 1.1 (1.0–1.2) | 1.5 (1.4–1.8) | ||
| - Less than good | 1.1 (1.0–1.3) | 2.5 (2.1–2.9) | ||
| Suffering from a disease | ||||
| - No | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| - Yes | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 1.1 (1.0–1.2) | 2.0 (1.8–2.2) | 1.3 (1.2–1.5) |
| Experienced quality of life (EQ5D tariff)** | ||||
| Per 10% decrease in score | 1.04 (1.02–1.06) | 1.19 (1.17–1.22) | 1.08 (1.05–1.12) | |
| Change in experienced health | ||||
| - No Change | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| - Better | 1.1(1.0–1.2) | 1.2 (1.0–1.3) | 1.2 (1.0–1.4) | 1.1 (0.9–1.4) |
| - Much better | 0.8 (0.7–1.0) | 0.8 (0.6–0.9) | 1.3 (1.0–1.6) | 1.2 (0.9–1.6) |
| - Worse | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 1.1 (1.0–1.2) | 1.9 (1.7–2.1) | 1.2 (1.1–1.4) |
| - Much worse | 1.4 (1.2–1.7) | 1.3 (1.1–1.6) | 3.5 (2.9–4.3) | 1.7 (1.4–2.2) |
| Life-events | ||||
| Did not experience life-event | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Change in own health | 1.3 (1.2–1.4) | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 1.8 (1.7–2.0) | 1.4 (1.3–1.5) |
| Change in health of a loved-one | 1.3 (1.2–1.4) | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 1.1 (1.0–1.3) |
| Death of a loved-one | 1.3 (1.2–1.4) | 1.4 (1.2–1.5) | 1.2 (1.1–1.4) | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) |
| Positive life-event | 1.1 (1.0–1.3) | 0.8 (0.7–0.9) | ||
| Any life-event | 1.3 (1.3–1.4) | 1.5 (1.4–1.7) | ||
*For the analyses on communication using GEE, variables that were presented separately for the descriptive analyses in Table 2 were merged. ‘Talked with family’ consists of talking ‘With partner’, ‘With Children’ and ‘With other family members’. ‘Talked with physician’ consists of talked ‘With GP’ and ‘With medical specialist’.
**The EQ5D is a validated set of questions on five domains (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain and discomfort, anxiety and depression), which can be used to calculate a single index value representing someone’s perceived quality of life. A score of 100% represents full health and a score of 0 represents death.