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Table 1 Basic characteristic of the participants among overweight and obese older adults

From: Activities of daily living limitations and family doctor contract services among overweight and obese older adults: is there a rural-urban difference?

Characteristic

N (%)

Family doctor contract services

P-value

Yes (%)

No (%)

Observations

4249

2824 (66.46)

1425 (33.54)

 

Age (years), mean (SD)

67.73 (6.09)

67.94 (5.98)

67.32 (6.30)

0.002

Gender

   

0.398

 Male

1971 (46.39)

1297 (45.93)

674 (47.30)

 

 Female

2278 (53.61)

1527 (54.07)

751 (52.70)

 

Residence

   

< 0.001

 Urban

2170 (51.07)

1534 (54.32)

636 (44.63)

 

 Rural

2079 (48.93)

1290 (45.68)

789 (55.37)

 

Education

   

< 0.001

 Illiterate

1115 (26.24)

805 (28.51)

310 (21.75)

 

 Primary school

1381 (32.50)

911 (32.26)

470 (32.98)

 

 Middle school

1102 (25.94)

688 (24.36)

414 (29.05)

 

 High school and above

651 (15.32)

420 (14.87)

231 (16.21)

 

Marital status

   

0.166

 Single a

568 (13.37)

363 (12.85)

205 (14.39)

 

 Married

3681 (86.63)

2461 (87.15)

1220 (85.61)

 

Household income b

   

0.001

 Q1

1319 (31.04)

872 (30.88)

447 (31.37)

 

 Q2

806 (18.97)

570 (20.18)

236 (16.56)

 

 Q3

1095 (25.77)

742 (26.27)

353 (24.77)

 

 Q4

1029 (24.22)

640 (22.66)

389 (27.30)

 

Medical insurance

   

< 0.001

 Yes

4204 (98.94)

2807 (99.40)

1397 (98.04)

 

 No

45 (1.06)

17 (0.60)

28 (1.96)

 

The time to the nearest clinic (minutes)

   

0.492

 ≤ 10

3727 (87.71)

2484 (87.96)

1243 (87.23)

 

 >10

522 (12.29)

340 (12.04)

182 (12.77)

 

Smoking

   

< 0.001

 Yes

642 (15.11)

384 (13.60)

258 (18.11)

 

 No

3607 (84.89)

2440 (86.40)

1167 (81.89)

 

Drinking

   

0.892

 Yes

1205 (28.36)

799 (28.29)

406 (28.49)

 

 No

3044 (71.64)

2025 (71.71)

1019 (71.51)

 

Self-rated health

   

0.323

 Very good

1251 (29.44)

809 (28.65)

442 (31.02)

 

 Good

723 (17.02)

501 (17.74)

222 (15.58)

 

 Fair

1138 (26.78)

754 (26.70)

384 (26.95)

 

 Poor

667 (15.70)

449 (15.90)

218 (15.30)

 

 Very poor

470 (11.06)

311 (11.01)

159 (11.16)

 

Chronic health conditions

   

< 0.001

No chronic condition

1622 (38.17)

1003 (35.52)

619 (43.44)

 

One chronic condition

1561 (36.74)

1067 (37.78)

494 (34.67)

 

Multimorbidity

1066 (25.09)

754 (26.70)

312 (21.89)

 

Activities of daily living limitations

   

0.006

 Yes

530 (12.47)

380 (13.46)

150 (10.53)

 

 No

3719 (87.53)

2444 (86.54)

1275 (89.47)

 
  1. Note:
  2. a Singles include those who are unmarried (35, 0.82%), divorced (14, 0.33%) and widowed (519, 12.21%);
  3. b Quartile 1 (Q1) was the poorest and Quartile 4 (Q4) was the richest
  4. The total percentage may not equal to 100 due to rounding;
  5. Abbreviations: SD = Standard deviation