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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Omega (Westport). 2010;62(3):201–220. doi: 10.2190/om.62.3.a

Table 2.

Correlations and Descriptives for Analytic Variables

Variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
1 Complicated grief
2 Caregiver age −.23**
3 Caregiver education −.21** −.02
4 Care preferences specified .20** −.18* −.02
5 Presence of children in home .25** −.22** .12 .06
6 History of family conflict .10 −.13 .01 .09 .22**
7 Patient physical symptoms .28*** −.26*** .16* .16* .26*** .26***
8 Patient psych symptoms .34*** −.38*** .10 .14 .24** .32*** .51***
9 Family conflict at end-of-life .27*** −.19* .08 .21** .23** .62*** .23** .31***
10 Difficulty accepting illness .42*** −.08 −.09 .03 .21** .15 .16* .14 .20
11 Patient fear of death .17* −.07 −.02 −.12 .02 −.10 .15 .30*** .01 .02
12 Patient quality of care −.30*** .10 −.06 −.08 −.21** −.16* −.34*** −.35*** −.19* −.04 −.10
13 Family quality of care −.25** .03 −.08 −.09 −.15 −.17* −.28*** −.20* −.10 −.07 −.05 .72***
14 Hospice utilization .08 −.12 −.14 −.16* .02 .01 .07 .11 .03 −.02 −.06 .00 −.02
M 2.39 .51 .38 .39 .07 .36 2.1 .86 .38 2.12 2.72 28.86 15.22 .67
SD .86 .50 .49 .49 .25 .71 1.35 .81 .76 1.35 1.17 7.06 5.00 .47
Range 1–4.6 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–4 0–4 0–2 0–4 0–4 1–5 0–36 0–20 0–1

p ≤ .10;

*

p ≤ .05;

**

p ≤ .01;

***

p ≤ .001.