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. 2009 Sep 17;137(2):280–287. doi: 10.1378/chest.09-1291

Table 4.

—PTSD and Depressive Symptom Burden by Family Members’ Preferred/Actual Decision Making Roles

PTSD Symptoms
Depressive Symptoms
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.