The mediating effect of nutrition on oral frailty and fall risk in community-dwelling elderly people

BMC Geriatrics

Table 3 Examination of the mediating effect of nutrition on oral frailty and fall risk(N = 409)

Model	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3
Dependent variable	Fall risk			Nutrition			Fall risk
Indicators	β	t	P	β	t	P	β	t	P
Oral frailty	0.222	4.837	<0.001	-0.536	-11.464	<0.001	0.114	2.192	0.029
Nutrition							-0.202	-4.191	<0.001
Age ground	0.180	4.031	<0.001	-0.034	-0.744	0.457	0.173	3.955	<0.001
Education level	0.091	2.112	0.035	-0.049	-1.125	0.261	0.081	1.916	0.056
Marital status	0.069	1.645	0.101	-0.028	-0.662	0.509	0.063	1.539	0.125
Place of residence	-0.127	-3.036	0.003	0.154	3.601	<0.001	-0.096	-2.305	0.022
Chronic disease status	0.207	4.950	<0.001	-0.112	-2.639	0.009	0.184	4.459	<0.001
Oral health status	0.096	2.015	0.045	-0.018	-0.375	0.708	0.093	1.977	0.049
Physical frailty	0.131	2.843	0.005	-0.011	-0.236	0.813	0.128	2.852	0.005
Social frailty	-0.010	-0.249	0.804	0.016	0.393	0.694	-0.007	-0.171	0.864
Psychological frailty	0.178	3.861	<0.001	-0.051	-1.085	0.279	0.167	3.707	<0.001
R²	0.635			0.618			0.654
Adjusted R²	0.403			0.382			0.428
F	26.834			24.579			27.006

Note. Model 1: multiple linear regression analysis between fall risk and oral frailty, Model 2: multiple linear regression analysis between nutrition and oral frailty, Model 3: multiple linear regression analysis between fall risk and oral frailty adjusted by nutrition

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