Research Article
Investigating Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life of Greeks and Albanian Immigrants with the Generic EQ-5D Questionnaire
Table 5
Vas evaluation of health states according to demographic, socioeconomic, place of residence, and ethnicity multivariate linear regression analyses.
| Independent variables | Whole sample | Greeks | Albanians | | value | | value | | value |
| Gender (men versus women) | 3.806 | 0.007 | 9.902 | 0.000 | −1.959 | 0.346 | Age (older versus younger) | −0.653 | 0.584 | −2.412 | 0.132 | 1.457 | 0.401 | Place of residence (urban versus rural) | −2.279 | 0.159 | −0.912 | 0.638 | −2.013 | 0.481 | Occupation (manual versus nonmanual) | −0.378 | 0.811 | −0.334 | 0.869 | −0.591 | 0.814 | Monthly income (high versus low) | 1.544 | 0.160 | −1.489 | 0.271 | 5.241 | 0.003 | Ethnicity (Greeks versus Albanians) | −21.116 | 0.000 | | | | | | 0.272 | | 0.089 | | 0.033 | |
|
|