Table 6. Psychological outcomes and importance of loss.
| Of those reporting a “most important” loss | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All participants (N = 153) | Importance of loss 1–5 (N = 14) | Importance of loss 6–8 (N = 41) | Importance of loss 9–10 (N = 59) | |||||||
| BASC-2 | ||||||||||
| Depression T-score | P | |||||||||
| <60, n (%) | 140 (92%) | 13 (93%) | 38 (93%) | 51 (86%) | 0.339 | |||||
| ≥60 n (%) | 13 (8%) | 1 (7%) | 3 (7%) | 8 (14%) | ||||||
| Anxiety T-score | ||||||||||
| <60, n (%) | 128 (84%) | 11 (79%) | 36 (88%) | 46 (78%) | 0.473 | |||||
| ≥60, n (%) | 25 (16%) | 3 (21%) | 5 (12%) | 13 (22%) | ||||||
| Somatization T-score | ||||||||||
| <60, n (%) | 136 (89%) | 12 (86%) | 38 (93%) | 51 (86%) | 0.626 | |||||
| ≥60, n (%) | 17 (11%) | 2 (14%) | 3 (7%) | 8 (14%) | ||||||
| Any T-score ≥ 60a | ||||||||||
| No, n (%) | 117 (76%) | 10 (71%) | 34 (83%) | 42 (71%) | 0.457 | |||||
| Yes, n (%) | 36 (24%) | 4 (29%) | 7 (17%) | 17 (29%) | ||||||
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; BASC-2, Behavior Assessment System for Children, Second Edition. T-scores ≥ 60 on the BASC-2 reflect at-risk or clinically significant scores. NOTE: Participants who reported a pet as their only important loss were excluded. A participant may have indicated more than one important loss.
aDepression, anxiety, and/or somatization T-score ≥ 60.