Religiousness, Health, and Depression in Older Adults from a Brazilian Military Setting

Table 2

Factors associated with religiousness using bivariate analysis, Air Force Hospital of São Paulo-Brazil, 2007.

Health variables	Religious attendance				Importance of religion to life
	Less than once a week	Once a week or more	𝑃	Odds-ratio (95% CI)	Not or somewhat important	Very important	𝑃	Odds-ratio (95% CI)
Any alcohol use	35.6%	20.5%	0.035^*	2.13 (1.04–4.35)	36.7%	24.3%	0.092	1.80 (0.90–3.60)
Dementia	20.0%	11.0%	0.110	2.03 (0.82–4.98)	23.3%	11.7%	0.054	2.30 (0.98–5.39)
Presence of depression	41.1%	21.9%	0.009^*	2.48 (1.24–4.98)	48.3%	23.3%	0.001^*	3.07 (1.55–6.09)
Hospitalization in previous 6 months	21.1%	13.7%	0.213	1.68 (0.72–3.89)	30.0%	10.7%	0.001^*	3.58 (1.55–8.25)
Physical activity	36.7%	46.6%	0.203	0.66 (0.35–1.24)	31.7%	46.6%	0.061	0.53 (0.27–1.03)
Pain	43.3%	39.7%	0.641	1.16 (0.61–2.17)	41.7%	41.7%	0.991	0.99 (0.52–1.99)
Self-reported sleep problems	55.6%	45.2%	0.185	1.51 (0.81–2.81)	51.7%	50.5%	0.882	1.04 (0.55–1.98)
Smoking	20.0%	12.3%	0.193	1.77 (0.74–4.23)	26.7%	10.7%	0.008^*	3.04 (1.30–7.09)

^*Statistically significant chi-square test (𝑃<0.05).