Table 4.

Factors associated with 3-year mortality stratified by physical and mental multimorbidity, N = 1570.

	Physical and Mental Multimorbidity *
	Presence (n = 543)		Absence (n = 1027)
	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI
Individual factors
Area material and social deprivation
Least deprived area	Reference		Reference
Moderately deprived areas	3.00	1.04–8.65	0.80	0.41–1.55
Most deprived areas	1.52	0.51–4.46	0.60	0.31–1.16
Age (5-year groups)	1.44	1.10–1.90	1.77	1.40–2.22
Sex (female versus male)	0.42	0.19–0.93	0.92	0.50–1.66
Education (≤7 years versus >7 years)	0.71	0.32–1.55	0.78	0.43–1.42
Marital status (single versus with partner)	2.67	1.26–5.65	0.87	0.47–1.61
Cognitive status, MMSE score	0.95	0.79–1.14	0.93	0.81–1.06
Functional status (lower quartile)	3.20	1.56–6.55	1.46	0.82–2.58
Social support (presence versus absence)	0.99	0.42–2.35	0.94	0.40–2.22
Current smoking (yes versus no)	2.97	1.17–7.59	3.09	1.48–6.47
Physical activity (number of sessions/week)	1.00	0.91–1.11	0.89	0.81–0.98
Satisfaction with life score	0.97	0.90–1.05	0.93	0.86–1.01
Childhood trauma (presence versus absence)	0.88	0.41–1.87	1.11	0.53–2.30
Health system factors
Continuity of care (quartiles)	0.66	0.44–0.88	0.63	0.48–0.82
Number of hospitalizations, past 3 years	1.11	0.99–1.24	1.14	1.02–1.29
Number of ED visits, past 3 years	0.97	0.88–1.06	0.94	0.87–1.02
Number of outpatient visits, past 3 years	1.00	0.99–1.01	1.01	1.00–1.03
Satisfied with physician explanations (yes versus no)	0.45	0.17–1.18	1.29	0.62–2.69
Satisfied with the medical visit (yes versus no)	1.68	0.65–4.36	0.81	0.40–1.64

Abbreviations: CI: Confidence Interval, ED: Emergency Department, HR: Hazard Ratio, MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination.

^*≥2 physical conditions + ≥1 mental disorder. Bold: p-value <0.05