Table 3.

Staff, Institutional, and Patient/Relational Factors Predicting Total Grief Levels

	B	SE	β	R2 change
Staff factors:				0.08 a
Age	0.03	0.09	0.03
Education	0.60	0.64	0.06
Ethnicity (Hispanic)	3.95	3.17	0.12
Race (Black)	−0.09	2.81	−0.00
Months since death	−1.01	0.81	−0.09
Other patient deaths past months	−0.85	1.16	−0.05
Emotional preparedness	−2.12	0.99	−0.19 a
Informational preparedness	0.94	0.92	0.09
Institutional factors:				0.00
Care setting (nursing home)	−3.20	2.46	−0.12
Support availability supervisor	−0.13	0.79	−0.01
Support availability coworkers	1.12	0.86	0.10
Patient/relational factors:				0.07 b
Patient suffering	0.23	0.26	0.06
Caregiving benefits	0.53	0.44	0.09
Months caring for patient	4.66	1.79	0.20 a
Relationship quality	1.67	0.70	0.17 a
Total R2				0.15 b

Note: Listwise N = 213; Care setting: CNAs in nursing home vs. HHAs in homecare.

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.