Table II.

Means, Standard Deviations, and Confidence Intervals for Each Risk Variable for Negative and Positive Cumulative Risk Indices

	Caregivers with negative cumulative risk indices			Caregivers with positive cumulative risk indices
Risk variable	M	SD	95% CI (lower limit, upper limit)	M	SD	95% CI (lower limit, upper limit)	t
Family burden	34.08	10.09	32.18–35.98	48.52	11.34	46.03–51.02	−9.32**
Family stress	7.95	5.03	7.00–8.89	12.46	7.36	10.85–14.08	−5.07**
Ages 5–7 QOL	5.25	1.17	4.93–5.57	3.82	1.37	3.39–4.26	5.48**
Ages 8–12 QOL	5.67	.91	5.44–5.92	4.44	1.06	4.11–4.78	6.18**
Asthma severity	6.47	3.56	5.80–7.14	11.23	4.80	10.18–12.29	−7.92**
SES	47.25	13.16	44.78–49.73	26.66	13.40	23.72–29.61	10.66**

**p <.01.