Table 3.
Depression and Grief Scores Across Categories of HLH Experience & Importance
| % of Total Sample | DEPRESSION
(range = 0 to 15) |
GRIEF
(range = 13 to 65) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Adjusted Mean + | Mean | Adjusted Mean + | ||
| Total Sample | n=292 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 43.2 | 43.2 |
| High Experience of HLH | 32% | 2.2 * | 2.8 * | 38.8 * | 40.2 * |
| Lower Experience of HLH | 68% | 5.0 | 4.8 | 45.2 | 44.5 |
| High Importance of HLH | 57% | 3.3 * | 3.7 * | 41.9 * | 42.9 |
| Lower Importance of HLH | 43% | 5.3 | 4.1 | 45.0 | 43.6 |
| High Experience, High Importance | 30% | 2.2 * | 2.4 * | 39.2 * | 40.2 * |
| High Experience, Lower Importance | 2% | 3.0 | 3.3 | 34.2 | 36.7 |
| Lower Experience, High Importance | 27% | 4.5 | 4.3 | 44.9 | 43.9 |
| Lower Experience, Lower Importance | 41% | 5.4 | 5.4 | 45.5 | 45.1 |
+
Adjusted means were calculated from OLS regression equations that control for personal and situational factors (age, sex, education, race, site, death forewarning, weeks bereaved, length of marriage, marital happiness). Full regression tables are available from the author by request.
*
p < 0.05. Statistical significance between categories was assessed by Independent Sample T-Tests and One-Way Anovas for the unadjusted means, and by OLS regression analyses in the adjusted means.