Table 4.

Race Differences in Caregiver Burden and Social and Personal Resources after Adjusting for Caregiver Education, Income, Employment Status, Mental and Physical Functioning, Relationship to Patient, and Patient Cancer Type, Stage, and Comorbidity Score (Among Caregivers for Later Caregiving Phase, n=600)^a

	Overall	Race	Least Squares Means ± SE	Least Squares Means ± SE
Outcome of interest	P-value	P-value	African Americans	Whites
ADL Count	< 0.001	0.45	1.4 ± 0.3	1.2 ± 0.1
IADL Count	< 0.001	0.021	3.7 ± 0.4	2.9 ± 0.2
Task Count	< 0.001	0.065	8.0 ± 0.8	6.6 ± 0.4
Hours per Week	< 0.001	< 0.001	31.9 ± 3.5	16.9 ± 1.9
Training (“Yes”)	0.005	0.22	2.3 ± 0.3	1.9 ± 0.2
MOS Social	< 0.001	0.18	3.9 ± 0.1	3.8 ± 0.1
MOS Informational	< 0.001	0.16	4.0 ± 0.1	3.8 ± 0.1
MOS Instrumental	< 0.001	0.020	3.9 ± 0.2	3.5 ± 0.1
MOS Emotional	< 0.001	0.90	3.9 ± 0.1	3.9 ± 0.1
CG Preparednessb	< 0.001	0.44	3.6 ± 0.1	3.6 ± 0.1

^aEach outcome of interest was examined as a separate multivariate model. ADL Count = number of activities of daily living; IADL Count = number of instrumental activities of daily living; Task Count = number of clinical tasks performed; Hours per week = number of hours spent caregiving each week; Training = receipt of training to perform clinical tasks; MOS Social = global social support; MOS Informational = informational social support; MOS instrumental = instrumental social support; MOS emotional = emotional social support; CG Preparedness = how confident the respondent feels in caring for the patient’s needs, finding resources, and coping with the stress of caregiving.

All analyses were adjusted for caregiver education, income, SF-12 physical summary score, SF-12 mental summary score, employment status, and relationship to patient, and patient cancer type, cancer stage, and ACE 27 co-morbidity score.

^bCaregiver Mastery was also included as a covariate in this analysis.