Public assistance program and food diversity among older people: a cross-sectional study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study data

Table 2 Association between receiving public assistance, dietary variety score, and eating together

	Crude model			Full-adjusted model
	β	95% CI	p	β	95% CI	p
Men
Public assistance (ref. non-recipients)
Recipients	-1.61	(-2.23, -0.98)	<0.001	-0.72	(-1.39, -0.05)	0.04
Eating together (ref. not everyday)
Everyday				0.72	(0.57, 0.86)	<0.001
Recipients*Everyday				1.41	(-0.12, 2.94)	0.07
Women
Public assistance (ref. non-recipients)
Recipients	-0.49	(-1.16, 0.19)	0.16	-0.19	(-1.06, 0.68)	0.66
Eating together (ref. not everyday)
Everyday				0.62	(0.45, 0.78)	<0.001
Recipients*Everyday				0.73	(-0.55, 2.01)	0.26

Abbreviations: CI, 95% confidence intervals; ref., reference; IADL, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
We adjusted for age, living arrangement, marital status, education, household income, current medical treatment for diseases (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, cancer, and depression), oral frailty risk, IADL, alcohol intake, smoking status, number of remaining teeth, and use of denture or bridge in the full-adjusted general linear model

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