Elderly care in daily living in rural Vietnam: Need and its socioeconomic determinants

BMC Geriatrics

Table 5 Effect of socioeconomic factors and number of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on elderly activities of daily living (ADLs) for older people

Socioeconomic factors/Terms	Basic ADLs			Instrumental ADLs			Intellectual ADLs
	Coef.	IRR	P-value	Coef.	IRR	P-value	Coef.	IRR	P-value
Aged 60-69 yr	-1.382	0.25	0.002	-0.712	0.49	< 0.001	-0.415	0.66	< 0.001
Aged 70-79 yr	-1.385	0.25	< 0.001	-0.366	0.69	< 0.001	-0.160	0.85	< 0.001
Male				0.424	1.53	< 0.001	-0.378	0.69	< 0.001
High school & above education				-0.459	0.63	< 0.001	-1.990	0.14	< 0.001
Primary/secondary school education				-0.347	0.71	< 0.001	-0.810	0.45	< 0.001
Able to read and write				-0.248	0.78	< 0.001	-0.284	0.75	< 0.001
Married							-0.176	0.84	< 0.001
Separated/divorced/single				0.303	1.35	0.022
Living with spouse				-0.118	0.89	0.006	0.116	1.12	0.041
Living with son/daughter				0.209	1.23	0.001
Living with grandchild				0.152	1.16	0.002	0.083	1.09	0.026
Living alone	-2.690	0.07	0.010	-0.452	0.64	< 0.001
Household head	-0.911	0.40	0.013				-0.251	0.78	< 0.001
Working or employed	-2.537	0.08	0.003	-0.530	0.59	< 0.001	-0.175	0.84	< 0.001
Household size ≤4				-0.117	0.89	0.002
Lowland area				-0.234	0.79	< 0.001
Highland area				-0.178	0.84	< 0.001	-0.088	0.92	0.003
Living below NPL				0.094	1.10	0.012	0.090	1.10	0.019
Richest quintile							-0.413	0.66	< 0.001
Richer quintile							-0.297	0.74	< 0.001
Middle quintile							-0.215	0.81	< 0.001
Poorer quintile							-0.175	0.84	< 0.001
Number of NCDs	0.634	1.88	< 0.001	0.067	1.07	< 0.001	0.074	1.08	< 0.001
Constant	-1.400		< 0.001	0.857		< 0.001	1.295		< 0.001
Pseudo R²	0.245			0.153			0.200

Coef. = coefficient; IRR = incident rate ratio; NPL = national poverty level; pseudo R² = pseudo-coefficient of determination

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