Table 5.
Demographic Factors Associated With Perceived Burdensomeness
| Variable | All (N = 373)a
|
Male (N = 195)
|
Female (N = 178)
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perceived burdensomeness, M (SEM)* | LR | LR test, p | Perceived burdensomeness M (SEM) |
LR | LR test, p | Perceived burdensomeness M (SEM) |
LR | LR test, p | |
| Age | — | 0.25 | .621 | — | 0.27 | .601 | — | 0.58 | .446 |
| Gender | 1.32 | .251 | |||||||
| Male | 1.76 (0.05) | ||||||||
| Female | 1.79 (0.06) | ||||||||
| Employment status | 4.19 | .041 | |||||||
| Yes | 1.59 (0.05) | ||||||||
| No | 2.11 (0.11) | ||||||||
| Literacy (read/write) | 11.54 | .009 | 12.13 | .007 | |||||
| Both | 1.61 (0.04) | .004 | 1.59 (0.05) | .037 | |||||
| English only | 1.90 (0.27) | .997 | 1.71 (0.50) | .837 | |||||
| Nepali only | 1.87 (0.10) | .109 | 1.53 (0.13) | .037 | |||||
| Neither | 2.12 (0.11) | Ref. | 2.11 (0.13) | Ref. | |||||
| Health | 24.26 | <.001 | 11.46 | .009 | 8.84 | .031 | |||
| Excellent/very good | 1.51 (0.07) | <.001 | 1.45 (0.10) | .005 | 1.58 (0.10) | .175 | |||
| Good | 1.63 (0.06) | <.001 | 1.59 (0.08) | .008 | 1.71 (0.10) | .470 | |||
| Fair | 1.69 (0.05) | <.001 | 1.75 (0.08) | .018 | 1.63 (0.07) | .014 | |||
| Poor | 2.25 (0.12) | Ref. | 2.30 (0.14) | Ref. | 2.22 (0.18) | Ref. | |||
Note. LR = Likelihood Ratio; Ref. = reference group.
a
Models were run on a subset of 373 individuals that had complete information for all variables analyzed.