Factors impacting loneliness in patients with serious life-limiting illness in the Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA) study

Table 2 Logistic regression model results

Independent variables	Dependent variable
Independent variables	OR (95% CIs)	P
Age	0.97 (0.96, 0.99)	< 0.001
More Education	0.70 (0.51, 0.94)	0.019
Has a Caregiver	0.50 (0.37, 0.67)	< 0.001
Enrolled during COVID-19 period	0.87 (0.64, 1.18)	0.371
Male	0.74 (0.55, 0.99)	0.043
Suburban Residence	0.57 (0.38, 0.82)	0.001
Immigrant Status	0.78 (0.46, 1.27)	0.327
No comorbidities	0.53 (0.34, 0.82)	0.004
Has Cancer	0.37 (0.26, 0.53)	< 0.001
Spanish-Speaking	0.83 (0.31, 2.04)	0.704
Non-White	0.79 (0.57, 1.09)	0.146

The logistic regression output is shown here. The first value indicates the odds ratio, and the values within parentheses indicates the 95% confidence interval associated with each variable. Reported education levels were categorized into “more education” (self-reported at least some college) vs. “less education” (self-reported at most a high school diploma). Enrollment timeframe was categorized into “enrolled during COVID-19 period” vs. “enrolled before COVID-19 period”. Residence was categorized into “suburban” vs. “urban”. Primary language was categorized as “Spanish-speaking” vs. “English-speaking”. Statistically significant relationships are shown in bold.

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