Social relations and contact with general practitioner in a middle-aged Danish population: a prospective register- and survey-based cohort study

Mikkelsen, Anne Sophie Bech; Lund, Rikke; Siersma, Volkert; Jørgensen, Terese Sara Høj; Christensen, Ulla; Kristiansen, Maria

doi:10.1186/s12913-022-07658-3

Table 3 Incidence rates (IR) and rate ratios (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for effect measure modifications

From: Social relations and contact with general practitioner in a middle-aged Danish population: a prospective register- and survey-based cohort study

	Emotional social support						Instrumental social support
	IR (95% CI) for tendency to contact GP		RR (95% CI) among those with a minimum of one contact		Combined effect (95% CI)		IR (95% CI) for tendency to contact GP		RR (95% CI) among those with a minimum of one contact		Combined effect (95% CI)
	Adjusted IR (95% CI)^a		Adjusted RR (95% CI)^a				Adjusted IR (95% CI)^a		Adjusted RR (95% CI)^a
Sex
Males	0.993	0.976–1.011	0.997	0.992–1.001	0.990	0.972-1.008	0.989	0.973–1.005	0.996	0.992–1.000	0.985	0.969-1.001
Females	0.998	0.984–1.011	1.002	0.997–1.006	1.000	0.987-1.014	1.009	0.996–1.022	1.002	0.998–1.006	1.011	0.998-1.024
Number of morbidities
0	1.027	0.994–1.062	0.999	0.993–1.005	1.026	0.991-1.061	1.005	0.979–1.033	0.999	0.995–1.004	1.004	0.976-1.032
1	0.967	0.946–0.988	0.998	0.994–1.004	0.965	0.944-0.987	0.992	0.971–1.013	1.003	0.999–1.007	0.995	0.974-1.016
2	0.999	0.974–1.024	0.999	0.990–1.009	0.998	0.972-1.025	0.986	0.964–1.008	0.994	0.985–1.003	0.980	0.957-1.004
3+	0.986	0.968–1.005	0.994	0.984–1.003	0.980	0.960-1.000	0.996	0.979–1.013	0.992	0.984–0.999	0.988	0.970-1.006
Occupational social class
Social class I–II	0.999	0.980–1.019	1.002	0.998–1.007	1.001	0.981-1.022	0.994	0.976–1.012	1.001	0.997–1.004	0.995	0.977-1.013
Social class III–IV	1.038	0.991–1.088	1.000	0.983–1.008	1.038	0.990-1.089	1.035	0.994–1.078	1.003	0.999–1.007	1.038	0.997-1.081
Social class V	1.000	0.932–1.073	1.000	0.963–1.038	1.000	0.923-1.083	1.000	0.958–1.020	0.991	0.981–1.001	0.991	0.969-1.013
Social class VI	0.996	0.974–1.018	1.002	0.998–1.005	0.998	0.976-1.020	0.993	0.974–1.013	0.979	0.964–0.994	0.972	0.948-0.997

^aAdjusted for all variables in the full model i.e. sex, age, number of morbidities, occupational social class and cohabitation status
Bold values indicate statistically significant p-values for interaction terms (p<0.05)

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