Table 3.

Brief Symptom Index, Z-scores

	Disruption in Caregiving	No Disruption in Caregiving	P*
	(n = 66) Mean (SD)	(n = 86) Mean (SD)
General Severity
Index	1.33 (2.2)	0.42 (1.4)	.002
Subscales
Somatization	0.44 (1.4)	0.08 (1.1)	ns
Obsessive compulsive	0.56 (1.9)	−0.06 (1.2)	.02
Interpersonal sensitivity	1.46 (2.0)	0.47 (1.4)	.0005
Depression	0.74 (1.8)	0.16 (1.2)	.02
Anxiety	0.44 (1.7)	−0.08 (1.1)	.03
Hostility	1.08 (2.0)	0.38 (1.4)	.01
Phobic anxiety	0.63 (1.7)	0.08 (1.2)	.02
Paranoid ideation	2.35 (2.4)	1.17 (2.1)	.001
Psychotocism	1.49 (2.6)	0.63 (1.8)	.002