Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Factors associated with risk of malnutrition and malnutrition after adjusted for confounders using multinomial logistic regression

Variable	Risk of malnutrition, n = 485 aOR (95% CI)	p value	Malnutrition, n = 151 aOR (95% CI)	p value
Age	1.02 (0.99,1.05)	0.268	1.06 (1.01,1.11)	0.020*
Gender (Male)	1.26(0.59,2.72)	0.533	0.95(0.33,2.68)	0.912
No of people living with	0.91 (0.85,0.97)	0.006*	0.89(0.74,1.09)	0.277
Usage of medication	0.97 (0.74,1.28)	0.827	1.47(0.82,2.66)	0.186
Alcohol consumption	1.63 (0.65,4.08)	0.281	4.06(1.17,14.07)	0.029*
Cigarette smoking	1.57 (0.75,3.29)	0.222	2.28(0.88,5.93)	0.087
Betel chewing	0.99 (0.66–1.50)	0.986	1.30(0.77,2.19)	0.304
HPT	0.99 (0.79,1.27)	0.994	1.71 (1.02,2.89)	0.044*

HPT hypertension; The reference category is well-nutrition (n = 363); Reference category for alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, betel chewing, usage of medicine, HPT is ‘no’; Reference for Gender is female
Multinomial regression was used, with a removal probability of 0.25
Adjusted for gender and for all other variables in the model. * p < 0.05 is significant
Model Fit: R² = 0.048 (Cox and Snell); 0.056 (Nagelkerke); 0.025 (McFadden)

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