Table 4. Clinical Depression of Caregivers and Institutional Placement of Care Recipients at 6-Month Follow-up*.
Variable | Hispanic or Latino | White or Caucasian | Black or African American | Combined | ||||
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Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | |
Caregivers at follow-up, n | 94† | 94 | 99† | 105 | 96† | 94 | 289‡ | 293 |
Caregivers with clinical depression at follow-up, n (%) | 25 (26.9) | 18 (19.2) | 24 (24.5) | 11 (10.5)§ | 16 (16.8) | 8 (8.5) | 65 (22.7) | 37 (12.6)‖ |
Care recipient randomization, n | 106 | 106 | 106 | 113 | 107 | 104 | 319 | 323 |
Care recipients institutionalized, n (%) | 6 (5.7) | 1 (0.9) | 13 (12.3) | 7 (6.2) | 4 (3.7) | 6 (5.8) | 23 (7.2) | 14 (4.3) |
Clinical depression was defined as a CES-D score ≥15, and care recipients were institutionalized permanently at last available assessment. CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.
1 participant was missing CES-D score.
3 participants were missing CES-D scores.
P = 0.008.
P = 0.0014.