Social relations and health in older people in Spain using SHARE survey data

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Score of each health component in the sample grouped by sociodemographic and SR variables

	Physical and emotional health			Functional ability			Cognitive and sensory ability
	Mean^b	SD^c	p-value	Mean^b	SD^c	p-value	Mean^b	SD^c	p-value
Gender			< 0.001			< 0.001			0.419
Women	67.36	18.47		90.39	19.68		50.19	17.75
Men	72.89	15.11		93.74	14.92		51.04	15.83
Marital Status			< 0.001			< 0.001			0.126
Without a partner	66.23	18.06		87.65	23.27		49.32	18.34
With a partner	71.59	16.54		93.94	13.96		51.18	16.14
Job situation			< 0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
Pensioner	66.25	15.96		90.78	18.76		47.38	15.85
Employed	81.65	11.62		97.81	1.56		58.61	15.60
Housewife	65.71	17.81		91.95	16.37		48.34	15.72
Others	67.04	18.00		87.66	23.46		49.96	17.83
Age			< 0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
50 to 64 years	76.96	14.56		96.92	5.98		56.68	15.55
65 to 79 years	66.85	16.31		96.92	14.48		48.85	15.55
80 years +	57.01	16.26		75.96	30.55		37.74	16.59
Satisfaction with social network			< 0.001			0.012			0.07
Low-moderate degree	48.20	20.33		88.12	9.91		31.04	9.99
High degree	71.08	16.66		94.54	11.85		51.75	16.11
Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale.			< 0.001			< 0.001			< 0.001
Does not feel loneliness	74.87	15.38		96.03	8.98		54.19	15.69
Feels some degree of loneliness	63.17	16.51		91.47	15.68		46.97	16.27
Number of friends in social network			0.088			< 0.001			0.277
No friends	70.37	16.97		93.91	13.19		51.32	16.53
1 to 7 friends	72.31	15.71		95.56	9.63		52.70	14.91
Number of family members in social network			0.863			0.644			0.242
No family members	71.07	14.91		94.69	11.91		49.36	14.66
1 to 5 or more	70.78	16.81		94.25	12.54		51.75	16.26

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