Quality of Life and Nutritional Status of the Geriatric Population of the South-Central Part of Nepal

Table 3

Logistic regression on nutritional status with different variables.

Characteristics	Nutritional status
	Unadjusted	Adjusted
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Age
60–67	Ref.	Ref.
68 and above	29.17 (13.88–61.31)	28.34 (13.35–60.18)
Gender
Male	Ref.	Ref.
Female	1.29 (0.81–2.05)	1.12 (0.62–2.04)
Ethnicity
Disadvantaged non-Dalit	1.25 (0.78–1.99)	0.88 (0.46–1.68)
Others	Ref.	Ref.
Religion
Hindu	2.37 (1.11–5.05)	2.26 (0.78–6.56)
Others	Ref.	Ref.
Educational status
Literate	Ref.	Ref.
Illiterate	2.21 (1.34–3.64)	1.83 (0.94–3.57)
Past occupation
Paid works	Ref.	Ref.
Nonpaid works	1.68 (1.06–2.67)	0.97 (0.51–1.82)

 < 0.05;  < 0.01;  < 0.001; all other statistics are not significant at  < 0.05; model adjusted for all covariates.