Table 2.
Interaction between care recipient's gender and care-giving arrangement in Cox proportional hazard models
| Model I* | Model II** | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable names | HR (95% CI) | P | HR (95% CI) | P |
| Care recipient's gender | ||||
| Female | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Male | 3.97 (1.17 - 13.42) | 0.027 | 5.13 (2.25 - 11.69) | < 0.0001 |
| Informal care-giving arrangement | ||||
| Spousal care | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Daughter-in-law care | 4.09 (1.23 - 13.58) | 0.022 | 4.40 (1.60 - 12.10) | 0.004 |
| Other categories (biological daughter care/other relative care/living alone) | 1.55 (0.45 - 5.39) | 0.491 | 1.26 (0.55 - 2.90) | 0.580 |
| Interaction | ||||
| Male gender * Daughter-in-law care | 0.09 (0.01 - 0.57) | 0.011 | 0.08 (0.02 - 0.46) | 0.004 |
| Male gender * Other categories | 0.66 (0.14 - 3.11) | 0.601 | ||
* No adjusting variables in this model.
** Adjusting care recipient's age, baseline care needs level, number of people living together, daycare service use, home-help servie use, home-visit nursing service use, home-visit nursing use, respite stay, and institutional care use