Age Moderates the Link between Epilepsy and Self-Rated Health (SRH)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Data
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Epilepsy
2.2.2. SRH
2.2.3. Demographics Variable
2.2.4. Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Healthy Controls | Epilepsy Patients | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | |
Age | 45.96 | 18.16 | 43.83 | 16.29 |
Monthly income | 1221.67 | 1331.02 | 1042.10 | 957.65 |
SRH | 3.40 | 1.15 | 2.58 | 1.21 |
N | % | N | % | |
Sex | ||||
Male | 16,805 | 43.36 | 231 | 43.67 |
Female | 22,105 | 56.32 | 298 | 56.33 |
Highest educational qualification | ||||
Below college | 33,811 | 71.97 | 434 | 82.04 |
College | 13,167 | 28.03 | 95 | 17.96 |
Legal marital status | ||||
Single | 23,128 | 49.23 | 305 | 57.66 |
Married | 23,850 | 50.77 | 224 | 42.34 |
Young | Middle-Aged | Older | |
---|---|---|---|
Age | −0.02 *** | −0.02 *** | −0.01 *** |
Sex | −0.16 *** | 0.04 *** | 0.15 *** |
Monthly income | 0.00 *** | 0.00 *** | 0.00 *** |
Highest educational qualification | 0.30 *** | 0.33 *** | 0.42 *** |
Marital status | 0.14 *** | 0.24 *** | 0.21 *** |
Epilepsy status | −0.69 *** | −0.81 *** | −0.89 *** |
R2 | 0.0385 | 0.0732 | 0.0596 |
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Kang, W. Age Moderates the Link between Epilepsy and Self-Rated Health (SRH). J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11, 6175. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11206175
Kang W. Age Moderates the Link between Epilepsy and Self-Rated Health (SRH). Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2022; 11(20):6175. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11206175
Chicago/Turabian StyleKang, Weixi. 2022. "Age Moderates the Link between Epilepsy and Self-Rated Health (SRH)" Journal of Clinical Medicine 11, no. 20: 6175. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11206175
APA StyleKang, W. (2022). Age Moderates the Link between Epilepsy and Self-Rated Health (SRH). Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11(20), 6175. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11206175