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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 4.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2012 Aug 9;43(4):865–879. doi: 10.1017/S0033291712001468

Table 1. Prevalence and reported burden of family health problems.

Total sample
Sub-sample with family health problems
Country income level
Country income level
High Upper-
middle
Low/lower
-middle
Total High Upper-
Middle
Low/lower-
middle
Total
% (se) % (se) % (se) % (se) Est1 (se) Est1 (se) Est1 (se) Est1 (se)


I. Prevalence of family health problems
 Parent 11.6 (0.5) 8.7 (0.5) 9.6 (0.8) 10.5 (0.3) 27.4 (10) 26.5 (14) 35.7 (2.2) 28.2 (0.7)
 Spouse 10.2 (0.5) 7.8 (0.5) 6.0 (0.7) 8.8 (0.3) 24.0 (10) 23.8 (14) 22.3 (2.0) 23.7 (0.7)
 Child 9.7 (0.5) 7.5 (0.6) 5.9 (0.7) 8.4 (0.3) 22.8 (0.9) 22.7 (16) 22.1 (2.2) 22.7 (0.7)
 Sibling 21.3 (0.6) 15.6 (0.8) 10.9 (10) 17.9 (0.4) 50.0 (0.9) 47.4 (19) 40.5 (2.5) 48.2 (0.8)
 Any physical 33.5 (0.7) 24.6 (0.9) 22.0 (14) 29.0 (0.5) 78.7 (0.7) 74.6 (16) 81.6 (16) 78.1 (0.6)
 Any mental Any physical or mental 19.4 42.5 (0.6)
(0.7)
15.3
32.9
(0.7)
(10)
9.6
26.9
(0.9)
(14)
16.5
37.2
(0.4)
(0.6)
45.6
100.0
(10)
( --- )
46.4
100.0
(17)
( --- )
35.6
100.0
(2.4)
( --- )
44.5
100.0
(0.8)
( --- )
 Mean number1 0.8 (0.02) 0.6 (0.02) 0.4 (0.02) 0.7 (0.01) 1.9 (0.04) 1.7 (0.04) 1.5 (0.05) 1.8 (0.02)
II. Burden of family health problems
 Any burden 17.6 (0.6) 14.0 (0.8) 9.6 (10) 15.2 (0.4) 41.2 (10) 42.5 (18) 35.7 (2.5) 40.8 (0.8)
 Any time 12.4 (0.5) 8.3 (0.6) 7.2 (0.8) 10.4 (0.3) 29.0 (0.9) 25.2 (15) 26.7 (2.3) 27.8 (0.7)
 Any financial 5.8 (0.3) 6.4 (0.6) 4.6 (0.6) 5.8 (0.3) 13.5 (0.6) 19.4 (16) 17.2 (15) 15.4 (0.6)
 Distress2 10.9 (0.4) 10.1 (0.6) 6.6 (0.8) 9.9 (0.3) 25.5 (0.8) 30.6 (13) 24.4 (2.2) 26.6 (0.7)
 Embarrassment2 2.7 (0.2) 7.1 (0.5) 2.5 (0.4) 3.9 (0.2) 6.4 (0.5) 21.7 (13) 9.2 (10) 10.4 (0.5)
(n) (7,265) (4,077) (2,550) (13,892) (3,079) (1,327) (579) (4,985)
1

Mean number of family health problems out of 48 (12 types of problems for each of four types of family members)

2

Alot or some distress or embarrassment reported in response to questions about intensity of these feelings