Factors Associated with Depression among the Elderly Living in Urban Vietnam

Table 3

Factors associated with depression by univariate and multivariate analysis.

Contents		Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
				Model 1		Model 2
		Coef	p-value	Coef	p-value	Coef	p-value
Age		0.37	0.001	0.18	0.002	0.13	0.01
Sex	Male	1		1		-	-
	Female	0.09	0.93	1.30	0.13	-	-
Education	Lower or high school	1		1		-	-
	College/Intermediated level	-0.07	0.96	0.29	0.77	-	-
	Universities or above	-1.95	0.13	0.16	0.87	-	-
Occupation	Government officer	1		1		-	-
	Worker	2.66	0.13	0.72	0.57	-	-
	Business	3.24	0.35	2.36	0.31	-	-
	Free labor	2.18	0.39	-2.25	0.22	-	-
	Housewife	-3.64	0.33	-0.04	0.99	-	-
	Others	2.82	0.59	2.23	0.54	-	-
Marital status	Single	1		1		-	-
	Married	-0.19	0.90	2.69	0.06	-	-
Living arrangement	Alone	1		1		1
	Spouse	-1.88	0.49	-2.42	0.27	-0.42	0.82
	Children	-2.95	0.31	-3.84	0.06	-2.74	0.16
	Spouse and children	-4.95	0.07	-3.94	0.07	-1.95	0.28
	Relative and acquainted	-6.46	0.26	-11.84	0.001	-10.58	0.01
The amount of physical activities		-3.27	0.001	-0.87	0.01	-0.97	0.01
The amount of medication use		0.46	0.001	0.22	0.01	0.22	0.01
Smoking status	Absent	1		1		-	-
	Present	-0.21	0.85	2.93	0.04	-	-
Drinking status	Absent	1		-	-	-	-
	Present	-3.40	0.001	-	-	-	-
Physical health		-0.44	0.001	-0.15	0.001	-0.15	0.001
Psychological health		-0.50	0.001	-0.19	0.001	-0.22	0.001
Environmental health		-0.44	0.001	-0.18	0.001	-0.17	0.001
Social relationship		-0.28	0.001	-0.01	0.68	-	-
Social connectedness		-0.76	0.001	-0.21	0.18	-	-
Participate religious groups	No	1	So	-	-	1
	Yes	0.78	0.62	-	-	2.24	0.04
Talk with local authority or governmental organization about problems in this community	No	1		-	-	1
	Yes	-3.51	0.01	-	-	-1.72	0.04
P-value of the model				0.001		0.001
R^2				0.5893		0.5794