Table 3.
Seemingly Unrelated Regression Results for Key Variables: Patient-reported health and three financial burden (FB) measures with paid leave (OLS coefficients, 95% Confidence interval)
| Dependent Variable | |||
| Panel A. Regression using FB1 | Health (1=very poor; 7=excellent) |
Quality of Life (1=very poor; 7=excellent) |
Perceived Stress (0=often; 16=never) |
| Dissatisfied with financial situation | −0.331*** (−0.501, −0.161) | −0.295*** (−0.473, −0.118) | −1 093*** (−1.496, −0.689) |
| Paid sick leave | −0.0503 (−0.475, 0.375) | 0.286 (−0.157, 0.729) | 0.00782 (−1.000, 1.016) |
| Caregiver received paid vacation or sick days | −0.149 (−0.637, 0.339) | 0.184 (−0.324, 0.693) | 0.004 (−1.153, 1.162) |
| Chi2 test for joint significance of patient paid leave and caregiver paid leave | 0.37 | 1.84 | 0 |
| Panel B. Regression using FB2 | Health (1=very poor; 7=excellent) |
Quality of Life (1=very poor; 7=excellent) |
Perceived Stress (0=often; 16=never) |
| Difficulty paying bills | −0.270*** (−0.433, −0.108) | −0.177** (−0.348, −0.006) | −0.720*** (−1.118, −0.321) |
| Paid sick leave | 0.106 (−0.308, −0.520) | 0.447** (0.0126, 0.882) | 0.583 (−0.429, 1.595) |
| Caregiver received paid vacation or sick days | −0.0621 (−0.552, 0.428) | 0.271 (−0.244, 0.786) | 0.315 (−0.883, 1.514) |
| Chi2 test for joint significance of patient paid leave and caregiver paid leave | 0.36 | 4.59 | 1.39 |
| Panel C. Regression using FB3 | Health (1=very poor; 7=excellent) |
Quality of Life (1=very poor; 7=excellent) |
Perceived Stress (0=often; 16=never) |
| Not enough money at end of the month | .0.404*** (−0.680, −0.128) | −0.312** (−0.601, −0.024) | −0.943*** (−1.625, −0.261) |
| Paid sick leave | 0.084 (−0.335, 0.503) | 0.419† (−0.019, 0.857) | 0.562 (−0.474, 1.597) |
| Caregiver received paid vacation or sick days | −0.122 (−0.618, 0.375) | 0.22 (−0.298, 0.739) | 0.189 (−1.037, 1.415) |
| Chi2 test for joint significance of patient paid leave and caregiver paid leave | 0.46 | 3.78 | 1.14 |
| Observations | 171 | 171 | 171 |
Notes: 95% confidence intervals in parentheses. All demographic and disease controls and income and SES controls are included in regressions. Full results are shown in Table A.1 in the appendix.
***
p<0.01,
**
p<0.05,
†
p<0.1