Table 3.

Sequential Regression of Hurricane, Demographic, and Pre-Hurricane Health Variables on Post-Hurricane Health Outcomes

		K6		PSS		IES-R		BMI		# of Medical Conditions		General Health
	Variables	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE
Step 1
	# of hurricane stressors	.40	.07^*	.19	.05^*	2.34	.31^*	.22	.10^†	.13	.02^*	.08	.04^†
	Level of property damage	.45	.27	.20	.18	2.72	1.12^†	.16	.36	.14	.08	.08	.06
	Water depth (log)	−.01	.33	.13	.25	1.37	1.55	.21	.50	−.24	.10^†	−.12	.10
	R²Δ	.09^*		.05^*		.18^*		.02		.11^*		.06^*
Step 2	Demographic variables controlled (not shown)
	# of hurricane stressors	.40	.08^*	.20	.06^*	2.09	.33^*	.10	.11	.12	.02^*	.08	.03^†
	Level of property damage	.51	.28	.28	.19	2.99	1.12^†	.17	.36	.15	.08	.09	.06
	Water depth (log)	−.11	.34	.12	.26	.78	1.56	.01	.51	−.27	.10^†	−.13	.12
	R²Δ	.02		.03		.03^†		.05^†		.01		.01
Step 3	Pre-hurricane physical and mental health controlled
	# of hurricane stressors	.30	.07^*	.14	.05^†	1.82	.33^*	.10	.05	.09	.07^*	.05	.03
	Level of property damage	.50	.26	.34	.18	2.92	1.10^†	−.01	.18	−.09	.07	.07	.06
	Water depth (log)	−.01	.32	.14	.24	.82	1.53	.21	.24	−.20	.09^†	−.12	.09
	Age	.12	.06	.11	.04^†	.89	.27^*	−.01	.04	.02	.02	.01	.01
	Own a car	−.65	.57	−.17	.40	−4.19	2.47	.60	.38	−.15	.16	−.09	.12
	# of children	−.34	.25	−.35	.17^†	−.74	1.07	−.11	.17	−.06	.07	−.01	.05
	Personal income (log)	.12	.17	.08	.12	.50	.75	−.02	.11	.00	.05	.00	.03
	Single	−1.29	.82	−.36	.57	−2.77	3.52	−.04	.54	.03	.22	.04	.16
	Minority	−.11	.94	−.49	.06	7.99	3.83^†	.70	.57	.35	.24	−.05	.16
	Months since Katrina	−.00	.10	−.03	.07	−.37	.42	.07	.07	.01	.03	.01	.02
	Public assistance	.20	.36	.25	.25	−2.17	1.57	.20	.27	−.08	.10	−.01	.07
	K6	.20	.08^*	−.02	.05	1.02	.33^*	.01	.05	.00	.02	−.02	.01
	PSS	.35	.09^*	.39	.07^*	.53	.41	−.03	.06	.04	.03	.06	.02^*
	BMI	.01	.04	−.02	.03	.01	.16	.89	.03^*	.02	.01^†	.01	.01
	# of medical conditions	.15	.20	.07	.14	−.39	.86	−.20	.14	.40	.05^*	.02	.04
	General Health	.21	.26	.19	.18	.96	1.12	.20	.17	.10	.07	.36	.05^*
	Perceived Social Support	−.00	.06	−.05	.05	.13	.28	−.01	−.04	.03	.02	−.01	.01
	R²Δ	.14^*		.14^*		.06^*		.73^*		.20^*		.19^*
	Mean (SD)	6.71 (5.19)		5.39 (3.59)		33.26 (22.97)		29.31 (6.72)		1.82 (1.50)		1.52 (1.04)
	R²	.24^*		.21^*		.27^*		.80^*		.32^*		.26^*
	Adjusted R²	.21		.18		.24		.79		.29		.23

^†

NOTE: p < .05,

p < .008