Table 4.

Results of uni- and multivariate analysis calculating the correlation of caregiver and patient characteristics and passive coping style to caregiver mental and physical component scores (MCS, PCS)

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
	R	P	R2	R	P	R2 whole model
Mental component scale
Age	−0.09	0.43
Sex	−0.28	0.01	0.08	−0.16	0.052
Relationship to patient	−0.02	0.84
Cohabiting	−0.08	0.49
Hours of care given to patient	0.04	0.76
Professional help in patient care	−0.11	0.32
Employment status
patient	−0.04	0.74
Duration epilepsy	−0.08	0.51
Seizure freguency (per month)	−0.09	0.42
Numberof AED’s	−0.05	0.67
Adverse side-effects	−0.16	0.15	0.03	−0.16	0.04
Coping: passive reaction pattern	−0.71	0	0.5	−0.67	0	0.55
Physical component scale
Age	−0.39	0.01	0.15	−0.28	0.01
Sex	0.01	0.94
Relationship to patient	0.11	0.35
Cohabiting	0.17	0.12	0.03	0.19	0.07
Hours of care given to patient	−0.4	0.01	0.16	−0.36	0
Professional help in patient care	−0.03	0.79
Employment status patient	0.06	0.63
Duration epilepsy	−0.1	0.45
Seizure frequency (per month)	0.01	0.92
Number of AEDs	0.02	0.83
Adverse side-effects	0	0.98		−0.12	0.25
Coping: passive reaction pattern	−0.1	0	0.01	0.54	0	0.29

ÇVariables associated to MCS and PCS with a p value < 0.20 were included in multivariate analysis. R ² is given for these variables and for the whole model. R ² indicates the proportion of variance explained by these individual variables or the whole model