Self-perceived weather sensitivity and joint pain in older people with osteoarthritis in six European countries: results from the European Project on OSteoArthritis (EPOSA)

Table 2 The association between self-perceived weather sensitivity and self-reported joint pain adjusted for potential confounders

Models	B	Standard error	p-value	Explained variance (%)
Model 1 ¹				3.9
Self-perceived weather sensitivity	1.03	0.19	<0.001
Model 2 ²				21.2
Self-perceived weather sensitivity	0.62	0.19	<0.01
Age	0.04	0.02	0.01
Sex: Male	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Sex: Female	0.41	0.19	0.03
Education: < Secondary education	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Education: ≥ Secondary education	–0.38	0.20	0.05
Partner status: No partner	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Partner status: Partner	–0.24	0.18	0.19
Country: Sweden	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Country: Germany	1.01	0.35	<0.01
Country: Italy	1.55	0.28	<0.001
Country: The Netherlands	1.10	0.28	<0.001
Country: Spain	2.52	0.28	<0.001
Country: United Kingdom	1.09	0.32	<0.01
Model 3 ³				44.1
Self–perceived weather sensitivity	0.37	0.17	0.03
Age	0.01	0.02	0.76
Sex: Male	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Sex: Female	0.08	0.18	0.65
Education: < Secondary education	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Education: ≥ Secondary education	–0.17	0.18	0.36
Partner status: No partner	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Partner status: Partner	0.09	0.17	0.59
Country: Sweden	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Country: Germany	0.79	0.34	0.02
Country: Italy	1.14	0.31	<0.001
Country: The Netherlands	0.51	0.33	0.12
Country: Spain	1.17	0.34	<0.01
Country: United Kingdom	–0.01	0.34	0.98
Pain medication: No use	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Pain medication: Use	0.29	0.17	0.09
Number of days with additional pain medication	0.20	0.02	<0.001
Anxiety	–0.01	0.03	0.74
Depression	0.03	0.03	0.42
Mastery	–0.06	0.02	0.01
Outdoor physical activity	<–0.01	<0.01	0.50
BMI	<0.01	0.02	0.94
Number of chronic diseases	0.29	0.08	<0.001
Season: Autumn	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Season: Spring	–0.11	0.24	0.64
Season: Summer	0.26	0.25	0.31
Season: Winter	–0.52	0.29	0.08

¹The association between self–perceived weather sensitivity and self–reported joint pain unadjusted for potential confounders.
²The association between self–perceived weather sensitivity and self–reported joint pain adjusted for socio–demographics and country only.
³The association between self–perceived weather sensitivity and self–reported joint pain adjusted for socio–demographics, country and other potential confounders.

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