Table 4.
—PTSD and Depressive Symptom Burden by Family Members’ Preferred/Actual Decision Making Roles
| PTSD Symptoms |
Depressive Symptoms |
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| No.(218) | %Yes | β (SE) | P | 95% CI | No.(222) | %Yes | β (SE) | P | 95% CI | |
| Preferred to be involved in decision making | 206 | 85.0 | −5.670, (2.989) | .059 | −11.564-0.224 | 210 | 85.2 | −2.016 (1.215) | .098 | −4.411-0.379 |
| Was involved in decision making | 213 | 84.0 | −4.313 (2.595) | .098 | −9.428-0.803 | 216 | 84.3 | −1.919 (1.079) | .077 | −4.045-0.207 |
| Concordance between preferred/actual role | 205 | 86.3 | −8.329 (2.949) | .005 | −14.143 to −2.515 | 208 | 86.5 | −1.936 (0.978) | .049 | −3.864 to −0.008 |
Associations were based on six single-predictor regression models, using a restricted maximum likelihood estimator with SEs corrected for departure of the outcome from the normal distribution. The P values are based on t tests of the slope. See Table 2 for expansion of abbreviations.