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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2012 Aug;40(8):2335–2341. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182536a81

Table 3.

Associations between having a wife hospitalized with severe sepsis and subsequent substantial depressive symptoms among husbandsa

Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)
Among all husbands Among husbands with
surviving wives
(stratified by patient
survival)		 Among husbands with
surviving wives
adjusted for wife’s
post-sepsis disability
Before sepsis (per additional year) 1.36 (0.92–2.01) 1.87 (0.86–4.04) 1.65 (0.76–3.62)
Effect of sepsis 1.90 (0.75–4.81) 0.72 (0.12–4.25) 0.63 (0.10–4.01)
After sepsis (per additional year) 0.83 (0.64–1.08) 1.12 (0.42–2.94) 1.17 (0.43–3.15)
Sepsis survivor ADL impairment 1.19 (0.90–1.57)

Abbreviations: ADL = Activities of Daily Living

a

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