Gender differences in predictors of self-rated health in Armenia: a population-based study of an economy in transition

Table 4 The association of fair/poor self-rated health with social structure, behavioral/attitudinal and psychosocial variables among men ^{a, b}

Variable/category	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Final Model: n=462, valid n=291
Variable/category	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Age (years)	1.03	1.02–1.05	1.03	1.02–1.05	1.04	1.02–1.06	1.04	1.02–1.06
Employment	0.75	0.49–1.13
Education
Less than school (<10 years)	2.74	1.26–5.95	2.33	1.05–5.16	2.75	1.04–7.30	2.95	1.14–7.60
Secondary (10–13 years)	1.96	1.19–3.23	1.75	1.04–2.95	2.34	1.19–4.60	2.50	1.32–4.74
University or more (ref.)	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Poverty
Severe	2.22	1.32–3.73	1.95	1.14–3.33	1.07	0.52–2.20
Moderate	1.38	0.84–2.26	1.18	0.70–1.98	1.28	0.66–2.47
No poverty (ref.)	1.00		1.00		1.00
Depression	3.36	1.90–5.95			3.18	1.69–5.99	3.18	1.71–5.91
Weak social support	2.26	1.33–3.82			2.89	1.45–5.73	2.88	1.48–5.60
Drinking once a week or more	0.65	0.42–0.99			0.58	0.33–1.01	0.57	0.33–0.99
Hosmer & Lemeshow goodness of fit test							p=0.802
Area under ROC curve							0.767
Pseudo R ²							0.174

^a Odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
^b Model 1: controlled for age. Model 2: controlled for significant variables in social structure (age, education, poverty). Model 3: controlled for significant variables in all three dimensions. Final Model: fitted model.

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