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Table 6.

Health characteristics and reporting that congregate meals helped independence by complex logistic regression.

Variable	Parameter	OR (95% CI)	p
Food insecurity	Fear of running out of food	2.67 (1.05, 6.80)	0.040
Food insecurity	No fear of running out of food (reference)	1.00	-
Calories from congregate meals	Half or more	5.78 (2.36, 14.30)	0.002
Calories from congregate meals	Less than half (reference)	1.00	-

Notes: Dependent variable: meals help independence (reference category = no). Model fit: corrected model, p < 0.001; 78.0% of the cases were classified correctly. The following variables in the model were not significant: race/ethnicity, p = 0.164; education, p = 0.540; self-rated health, p = 0.082; marital status, p = 0.127; age category, p = 0.054; mobile impairment, p = 0.137; and reported eating vegetables at the site, p = 0.221.