Research Article
Aged Persons Living with HIV and Nutritional Wellness: Analysis of 2013 South Africa-SAGE Well-Being of Older People Study (WOPS) Wave 2
Table 1
Regression analysis on high nutritional wellness among the aged.
| | Covariates | Model I | Model II | | OR [95% CI] | OR [95% CI] |
| | HIV status | | Not infected | 1.00 | 1.00 | | Infected | 0.74 [0.96, 2.26] | 0.71 [0.80, 2.48] |
| | Confounding factors | | Individual level factors | | Age | | 50–64 | — | 1.00 | | 65–74 | — | 1.22 [0.66, 2.27] | | 75–84 | — | 0.81 [0.31, 2.07] | | 85+ | — | 0.09 [0.01, 0.73] |
| | Level of education attained | | No formal education | — | 1.00 | | Primary | — | 0.53 [0.28, 0.99] | | Secondary | — | 0.71 [0.37, 1.37] | | Tertiary | — | 0.62 [0.10, 3.75] |
| | Household source of income | | No source of income | — | 1.00 | | Self-generated income | — | 0.08 [0.01, 0.73] | | Wages/salaries | — | 0.09 [0.01, 0.73] | | Govt grants | — | 0.19 [0.03, 1.45] | | From rental property/retirement fund | — | 0.08 [0.00, 1.37] |
| | Financial situation | | Much worse | — | 1.00 | | About the same | — | 1.6 [0.45, 2.35] | | Better | — | 6.15 [2.23, 16.93] |
| | Variance of the random effects (SE) | | Individual level | 1.69 E−07 [2 E−05] | 0.1937 [2.10 E−02] | | %∆ in random effect | −3 E + 03 | −1 E + 06 |
| | Individual level | | Deviance | 503.4 | 415.8 | | %∆ in deviance | 0.0 | 0.2 | | AIC | 510.5 | 446.4 |
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, , and ; SE, standard error; 95% CI, 95 percent confidence interval; AIC, akaike information criterion. |