Factors that facilitate multigenerational exchanges in regional locations: a cross‐sectional study in Niigata City, Japan

Table 4 Factors related to multigenerational exchanges (multivariate analysis)

	B	SE	Wald	p-value	OR	OR 95% confidence interval
	B	SE	Wald	p-value	OR	Minimum	Maximum
High frequency of meetings	1.345	0.337	15.982	<0.001	3.839	1.985	7.425
No. of caretakers	−0.074	0.047	2.513	0.113	0.929	0.848	1.018
Specialist qualification^a of representative	0.785	0.297	6.998	0.008	2.193	1.226	3.925
SC scale total	−0.030	0.019	2.669	0.102	0.970	0.936	1.006
Activities reflecting local culture	0.585	0.267	4.806	0.028	1.794	1.064	3.027
Constant	0.515	0.993	0.269	0.604	1.674

^a Specialist qualifications included nurses, doctors, childcare workers, nutritionists, counselors, teachers, etc.
Binomial logistic regression analysis: Forced entry method; Model χ², p < 0.001, Hosmer–Lemeshow test, p = 0.572.
Abbreviation: OR odds ratio; SE standard error

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