Social Support Associated with Quality of Life in Home Care Patients with Intractable Neurological Disease in Japan

Table 3

Correlates of the total WHOQOL score (low- and high-score groups).

		Multiple adjustment
	OR	95% CI	P value
ADL	2.17	1.06–4.43	0.033
Hobby	2.25	0.69–7.37	0.179
Frequency of going out	1.78	0.81–3.94	0.152
A person who will listen empathically to anxieties or troubles	6.38	1.31–30.99	0.022
Patient gatherings held by public health center	6.07	1.37–26.88	0.018

Data are expressed by involving odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidential interval (CI) of logistic regression analysis.
Odds ratio shows value turned on sex, age, ADL, a person who will listen empathically to anxieties or trouble, frequency of going out, not attending/attending patient gatherings held by the public health center, and not having/having hobby.
P value by multiple logistic regression analysis.