Research Article
Family Support and Loneliness among Older Persons in Multiethnic Malaysia
Table 4
Results of ordinal logistic regression on higher levels of loneliness (
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| Attributes | OR | 95% CI |
| Age group (ref: 60s) | | | 70s | 0.99 | (0.79–1.24) | 80s+ | 1.70 | (1.14–2.54) | Male | 0.95 | (0.75–1.20) | Ethnicity (ref: Malay) | | | Indigenous | 1.25 | (0.90–1.73) | Chinese | 0.36 | (0.28–0.46) | Indian | 0.52 | (0.34–0.77) | Married | 0.51 | (0.41–0.64) | Urban | 0.81 | (0.65–1.00) | Edu level (ref: no schooling) | | | Primary level | 0.83 | (0.67–1.04) | Secondary+ | 0.81 | (0.57–1.17) | Still working | 0.99 | (0.78–1.27) | Income sources (ref: none) | | | 1-2 sources | 0.71 | (0.56–0.89) | 3+ sources | 0.57 | (0.43–0.77) | Illnesses (ref: none) | | | 1 illness | 1.47 | (1.15–1.87) | 2+ illnesses | 1.65 | (1.30–2.10) | Physical limitations (ref: none) | | | 1-2 limitations | 1.16 | (0.90–1.49) | 3+ limitations | 1.13 | (0.84–1.52) | Monetary | 0.79 | (0.64–0.98) | Payment of bills | 0.99 | (0.78–1.25) | Food/necessities | 0.85 | (0.66–1.11) | Housework | 0.95 | (0.74–1.21) | Coresidence | 0.67 | (0.53–0.84) | Religious activities | 0.77 | (0.62–0.96) | Leisure activities | 1.00 | (0.81–1.24) | Chi-squarea | 33.010 | | valuea | 0.104 | | df
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Note: odds ratio in bold indicates significance at 0.05.
aTest of parallel lines.
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