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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychosom Res. 2009 Mar 5;67(1):29–35. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.01.009

Table 2.

Comparisons between patients and spouses on demographic and study variables

Characteristics Patients Spouses
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Paired t p-value
Age, years 61.7 (12.5) 57.5 (11.9) 4.4 <.001
Education, years 13.4 (3.8) 13.5 (3.7) 1.0 >.05
Depressive symptom, BSI 0.74 (0.96) 0.77 (1.18) -0.2 >.05
Anxiety, BSI 0.64 (0.76) 0.55 (0.66) 0.6 >.05
Quality of life, MLHFQ 38.3 (23.4) 21.8 (22.6) 5.1 <.001

Note: SD= standard deviation, BSI = Brief Symptom Inventory, MLHFQ= Minnesota Living with Heart Failure