Table 2.

Correlates of anxiety symptoms in older adults in primary care settings.

Factor	Risk level	Reference level	Coefficient	Standard error	χ2	P	OR(95%CI)
Sex	Female	Male	0.616	0.195	10.004	0.002	1.85 (1.26, 2.71)
Self-rated economic status	Poor	Good	0.837	0.338	6.151	0.013	2.31 (1.19, 4.48)
Self-rated family relationship	Fair and poor*	Good	0.615	0.222	7.665	0.006	1.85 (1.20, 2.86)
Hypertension	Yes	No	0.700	0.194	13.042	< 0.001	2.01 (1.38, 2.95)
Chronic gastric ulcer	Yes	No	1.920	0.433	19.699	< 0.001	6.82 (2.92, 15.94)
Parkinson's disease	Yes	No	2.057	0.956	4.633	0.031	7.83 (1.20, 50.95)

^*Because of the very small numbers of the category of “poor” relationship (n<10), “poor” and “fair” were merged into one category.