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.

CovariatesModel IModel II
OR [95% CI]OR [95% CI]

HIV status
 Not infected1.001.00
 Infected0.74 [0.96, 2.26]0.71 [0.80, 2.48]

Confounding factors
 Individual level factors
  Age
   50–641.00
   65–741.22 [0.66, 2.27]
   75–840.81 [0.31, 2.07]
   85+0.09 [0.01, 0.73]

  Level of education attained
   No formal education1.00
   Primary0.53 [0.28, 0.99]
   Secondary0.71 [0.37, 1.37]
   Tertiary0.62 [0.10, 3.75]

  Household source of income
   No source of income1.00
   Self-generated income0.08 [0.01, 0.73]
   Wages/salaries0.09 [0.01, 0.73]
   Govt grants0.19 [0.03, 1.45]
   From rental property/retirement fund0.08 [0.00, 1.37]

  Financial situation
   Much worse1.00
   About the same1.6 [0.45, 2.35]
   Better6.15 [2.23, 16.93]

  Variance of the random effects (SE)
   Individual level1.69 E−07 [2 E−05]0.1937 [2.10 E−02]
   %∆ in random effect−3 E + 03−1 E + 06

  Individual level
   Deviance503.4415.8
   %∆ in deviance0.00.2
   AIC510.5446.4

, , and ; SE, standard error; 95% CI, 95 percent confidence interval; AIC, akaike information criterion.