Table 2. MRI characteristics of strained and non-strained caregivers.
| Strained caregivers (n=132) | Non-strained caregivers (n=105) | Test-statistic | DF | p-value | |
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| White matter grades (0-9), mean (SD) | 2.2 (1.5) | 1.8 (1.0) | -2.02* | 230.6 | 0.04 |
| Ventricular grades (0-9), mean (SD) | 3.5 (3.3) | 3.5 (3.2) | -0.38 | 235 | 0.70 |
Means (standard deviations) shown unless otherwise specified; Test-statistics are t-values for differences in means and chi-square values for differences in proportions;
*
Satterthwaite test for unequal variances used.