Table 2.

Associations between having a husband hospitalized with severe sepsis and subsequent substantial depressive symptoms among wives^a

	Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)
	Among all wives	Among wives with surviving husbands (stratified by patient survival)	Among wives with surviving husbands adjusted for husband’s post-sepsis disability
Before sepsis (per additional year)	1.07 (0.87–1.32)	1.11 (0.73–1.68)	0.98 (0.62–1.55)
Effect of sepsis	3.74 (2.20–6.37)‡	2.86 (1.06–7.73)*	2.61 (0.93–7.38)
After sepsis (per additional year)	0.73 (0.60–0.90)†	0.84 (0.45–1.15)	0.82 (0.43–1.59)
Sepsis survivor ADL impairment			1.35 (1.12–1.64)†

Abbreviations: ADL = Activities of Daily Living

^aResults of fixed-effects logistic regression with hospitalization-level fixed effects stratified by gender, controlling for all time-invariant characteristics of the spouse.

^*P < 0.05

^†P < 0.01

^‡P < 0.001