Informal care and health behaviors among elderly people with chronic diseases

Wu, Hong; Lu, Naiji

doi:10.1186/s41043-017-0117-x

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Table 1 Means of characteristics of IC and non-IC individuals

From: Informal care and health behaviors among elderly people with chronic diseases

	Smoking control		Dietetic regulation		Weight control		Maintenance of exercising
	IC	Non-IC	IC	Non-IC	IC	Non-IC	IC	Non-IC
Age	60.87	62.45	61.60	62.40	60.43	62.49	61.25	62.49
Age 1 (60–75)	0.36	0.32	0.34	0.32	0.34	0.32	0.36	0.32
Age 2 (75–85)	0.15	0.19	0.17	0.18	0.14	0.19	0.16	0.19
Age 3 (> 85)	0.03	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.06	0.04	0.06
Gender	0.21	0.61	0.51	0.61	0.50	0.61	0.50	0.61
Marital status	0.88	0.83	0.86	0.82	0.88	0.83	0.86	0.82
Living in rural area	0.32	0.26	0.36	0.26	0.42	0.26	0.44	0.26
Education	0.65	0.38	0.58	0.38	0.72	0.38	0.69	0.38
Education 1 (middle school)	0.25	0.18	0.21	0.18	0.25	0.18	0.24	0.18
Education 2 (high school)	0.13	0.08	0.13	0.08	0.15	0.08	0.14	0.08
Education 3 (junior or college and above)	0.05	0.02	0.04	0.02	0.06	0.02	0.06	0.02
Total household income (RMB/thousands)	1456.30	847.18	925.34	873.3	1211.78	850.56	1006.99	857.09
Income 1 (2000, 7000)	0.29	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.29	0.28	0.28
Income 2 (7000, 20,000)	0.27	0.26	0.27	0.26	0.27	0.26	0.27	0.26
Income 3 (> 20,000)	0.17	0.15	0.18	0.15	0.19	0.15	0.19	0.15
Health insurance	0.96	0.93	0.95	0.93	0.94	0.93	0.95	0.93
Health status and function
Mental health	16.60	16.76	17.16	16.66	16.78	16.76	17.01	16.76
PFs	2.31	2.57	2.59	2.55	2.44	2.57	2.58	2.56
ADLs	0.74	0.69	0.75	0.68	0.65	0.69	0.73	0.69
IADLs	0.62	0.70	0.72	0.68	0.62	0.69	0.71	0.69
Body pains	0.35	0.36	0.39	0.36	0.37	0.36	0.37	0.36
Disabilities	0.31	0.30	0.27	0.30	0.27	0.30	0.28	0.31
Other chronic diseases	2.70	2.33	2.76	2.28	2.82	2.32	2.80	2.31
Self-report health	0.15	0.16	0.13	0.16	0.13	0.16	0.13	0.16
Social contact
Children	0.51	0.56	0.54	0.56	0.53	0.56	0.53	0.56
Social activities	0.83	0.74	0.85	0.73	0.88	0.74	0.94	0.73
Living information
Distance to bus stop	2.60	2.96	2.69	2.96	2.05	2.92	2.28	2.93
Distance to train station	43.96	58.06	52.28	58.85	41.94	58.32	48.48	58.18
Village/community economic status	3.82	3.79	3.91	3.77	3.93	3.78	3.94	3.79
Drinking status	0.85	0.45	0.50	0.45	0.50	0.45	0.48	0.45
Observations	1068	2130	2400	2066	1231	2121	1642	2105

Notes: the baseline categories are “age < 60,” “marital status: unmarried,” “living in the rural area: village,” “gender: female,” “Education: primary school and below,” and “health insurance: no insurance”
IC informal care

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