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. 2017 Apr 7;7:15. doi: 10.1186/s13561-017-0151-9

Table 4.

Continuation of caregiving of non-working caregivers

Independent variables HI not provided in previous period
Co-residential caregiving −0.0101 −0.0417
(0.122) (0.129)
Co-residential caregiving (initial) 0.456*** 0.573***
(0.104) (0.121)
m(proxy of formal care use) −62.58** −68.33**
(26.23) (29.21)
High-intensity caregiving (HI) 1.047* 1.232**
(0.537) (0.570)
Generalized residual (GR) −0.462 −0.363
(0.422) (0.434)
HI × GR 0.0907 −0.281
(0.485) (0.520)
Relative resources squared 0.00917 0.00598
(0.00878) (0.00931)
Relative resources 0.0229 0.0374
(0.0327) (0.0351)
Sex (male = 1) −0.120 −0.104
(0.157) (0.167)
Care recipients
Father 0.0599 0.0339
(0.135) (0.144)
Mother 0.408*** 0.469***
(0.111) (0.122)
Father-in-law −0.143 −0.117
(0.166) (0.178)
Mother-in-law 0.284** 0.317**
(0.118) (0.129)
Health status
Difficulty in daily life activities −0.0223 −0.0518
(0.124) (0.140)
Diabetes 0.0400 0.0541
(0.167) (0.184)
Heart disease −0.168 −0.0844
(0.225) (0.242)
Cerebral stroke −0.0348 0.0627
(0.327) (0.340)
Hypertension 0.216 0.231
(0.152) (0.164)
Hyperlipidemia 0.0545 −0.0108
(0.123) (0.132)
Having friend 0.206* 0.274**
(0.124) (0.134)
Constant 1.492 0.926
(1.330) (1.445)
lnσu 2 −0.422 −0.376
σu 0.809*** 0.828***
(0.141) (0.157)
Intra-class correlation (σu 2/(1 + σu 2)) 0.396 0.407
Likelihood-ratio test of ρ = 0 [chi2(1)] 18.10 15.70
Prob ≥ chi2 0.00 0.00
Log-likelihood −1005.92 −857.71
N 1743 1454

Co-residential caregiving (initial) refers to high-intensity caregiving in 2005. Age, educational attainment, hospitalization, marital status, medication or doctor’s consultation, residence, and having cancer were included as covariates

Standard errors in parentheses. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1