Table 2.
Caregiver well-being descriptive resultsa.
| Analytic cohort | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants | Non-participants | |||||||
| Survey 1 | Survey 2 | Survey 1 | Survey 2 | |||||
| Caregiver financial strainb, mean (SD) | 3.64 (0.97) | (n = 81) | 3.28 (1.17) | (n = 81) | 3.83 (0.84) | (n = 60) | 3.84 (0.95) | (n = 60) |
| Caregiver depressive symptomsc, mean (SD) | 8.84 (6.18) | (n = 85) | 8.56 (6.37) | (n = 85) | 10.28 (6.90) | (n = 50) | 11.65 (7.53) | (n = 50) |
| Caregiver perceived quality of VA care, meand (SD) | 6.21 (2.75) | (n = 76) | 5.96 (2.89) | (n = 76) | 6.10 (2.55) | (n = 42) | 5.29 (2.80) | (n = 42) |
| Caregiver burden: zarit scalee, mean (SD) | 16.88 (10.19) | (n = 85) | 15.85 (10.76) | (n = 85) | 18.17 (11.38) | (n = 53) | 21.43 (12.48) | (n = 53) |
| Positive aspects of caregiving scalef, mean (SD) | 34.26 (8.83) | (n = 85) | 35.51 (8.70) | (n = 85) | 33.30 (8.99) | (n = 54) | 32.87 (10.11) | (n = 54) |
a
Results presented for each item reflect responses from individuals who had scores at both survey time points.
b
Financial strain score range 1 (low strain)-5 (high strain).
c
CESD scale range 0 (low depressive symptoms)-30 (high depressive symptoms).
d
Perceived quality of care scale range 0 (worst care)-10 (best care).
e
Zarit scale range 0 (positive perspective)-48 (very stressed).
f
Positive Aspects of Caregiving Scale range 9 (very negative)-45 (very positive).
Table displays descriptive statistics for the well-being measures of the 158 caregivers that were included in analysis. For some measures, the number of available responses was lower due to missing or incomplete subscales.