Table 3.
Age differences in the relationship between perceived meaning in life and preventive healthcare use
| Emerging adults 18–24 years |
Young adults 25–44 years |
Middle-age adults 45–64 years |
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| Items | n (%) | Multivariate regressiona | n (%) | Multivariate regressiona | n (%) | Multivariate regressiona | |||
| aOR (95% CI) | p-value | aOR (95% CI) | p-value | aOR (95% CI) | p-value | ||||
| Health check (any type) | 127 (40.8) | 0.892 (0.706, 1.127) | 0.338 | 550 (62.0) | 1.214 (1.064, 1.386) | 0.004 | 174 (70.7) | 1.396 (1.002, 1.945) | 0.048 |
| X-ray | 47 (15.1) | 0.912 (0.661, 1.258) | 0.576 | 300 (33.8) | 1.175 (1.023, 1.350) | 0.022 | 107 (43.5) | 1.487 (1.062, 2.082) | 0.021 |
| B-ultrasound | 51 (16.4) | 0.770 (0.568, 1.043) | 0.091 | 403 (45.4) | 1.241 (1.084, 1.420) | 0.002 | 136 (55.3) | 1.436 (1.037, 1.989) | 0.029 |
| Blood testing | 87 (28.0) | 0.996 (0.776, 1.278) | 0.975 | 483 (54.5) | 1.148 (1.010, 1.305) | 0.035 | 158 (64.2) | 1.616 (1.159, 2.253) | 0.005 |
| CT scan | 34 (10.9) | 0.862 (0.619, 1.201) | 0.381 | 168 (18.9) | 1.083 (0.923, 1.270) | 0.328 | 74 (30.1) | 1.010 (0.742, 1.374) | 0.952 |
| Genetic testing | 14 (4.5) | 0.847 (0.509, 1.411) | 0.524 | 41 (4.6) | 0.967 (0.743, 1.259) | 0.802 | 13 (5.3) | 1.227 (0.645, 2.333) | 0.533 |
a Multivariate regression: adjusted for gender, marriage, education, job, income, area living in the past year, comorbidity, self-rated health, life satisfaction, depression (PHQ-2), anxiety (GAD-2), loneliness (UCLA-3), somatic symptoms (PHQ-15).