Table 2 Predictors of membership of the joint trajectories (N = 345)
Joint Trajectories (Reference: Overall High HrQoL) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Overall High HrQoL | Progressively Decreasing HrQoL | Asymmetric Decline in HrQoL | Overall Low HrQoL | |
Coef. (Std. Err.) | Coef. (Std. Err.) | Coef. (Std. Err.) | ||
Age at beginning of last year of life | ||||
≤ 45 years of age | 1.14 (1.19) | 3.69* (1.79) | 2.06 (1.21) | |
46–65 years of age | -0.62 (0.51) | 1.97 (1.32) | 0.09 (0.55) | |
≥ 66 years of age [Reference] | ||||
Gender | ||||
Male [Reference] | ||||
Female | -0.54 (0.49) | -1.36* (0.69) | -0.75 (0.52) | |
Marital status | ||||
Married [Reference] | ||||
Separated/Widowed/ Divorced/Never married | -0.19 (0.48) | 0.47 (0.68) | -0.40 (0.51) | |
Highest educational attainment | ||||
Primary or lower | 1.39* (0.55) | -1.00 (1.22) | 1.20* (0.58) | |
Secondary | 0.82 (0.53) | 0.89 (0.71) | 0.72 (0.56) | |
Above secondary [Reference] | ||||