Psychological distress increases the risk of falling into poverty amongst older Australians: the overlooked costs-of-illness

Table 5 Sensitivity analysis modified poisson regression model of incidence of multidimensional poverty between 2009 and 2012, Australian population aged 65 years and over

	Males		Females
	Estimate (95% CI)	p-value	Estimate (95% CI)	p-value
Intercept	−3.06 (−5.87, −0.24)	0.0332	0.44 (−2.26, 3.14)	0.7491
High psychological distress	0.84 (0.16, 1.53)	0.0160	0.85 (0.33, 1.37)	0.0013
Age – continuous	0.02 (−0.02, 0.06)	0.3345	−0.03 (− 0.07, 0.003)	0.0760
Not in the labour force	0.10 (−0.59, 0.80)	0.7726	0.38 (−0.25, 1.02)	0.2383
Major city	−0.34 (− 0.88, 0.21)	0.2240	− 0.29 (− 0.70, 0.11)	0.1578
Married	− 0.46 (−1.04, 1.22)	0.1211	0.12 (− 0.61, 0.36)	0.6185
Own home	0.12 (−0.73, 0.99)	0.7894	0.12 (−0.50, 0.74)	0.6959
Adjusted relative risk
High psychological distress VS Low psychological distress	2.32 (1.17–4.60)	0.0160	2.34 (1.39–3.93)	0.0013

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