Table 4.
Mean CES-D scores—caregiving (disaggregated by gender) and care intensity
| Variable | Total | Women | Men | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | p-value | Mean | SD | p-value | Mean | SD | p-value | |
| Caregiving | |||||||||
| 2015 | |||||||||
| Non-carers | 12.08 | (9.14) | 12.16 | (8.89) | 12.01 | (9.38) | |||
| Carers | 13.12 | (9.58) | 13.59 | (10.06) | 12.39 | (8.78) | |||
| June 2020 | |||||||||
| Non-carers | 17.44 | (12.44) | 19.07 | (12.61) | 16.04 | (8.78) | |||
| Carers | 20.74 | (13.86) | *** | 21.15 | (14.00) | 20.18 | (13.71) | * | |
| Observations | 3153 | 1615 | 1538 | ||||||
| Intensity | |||||||||
| 2015 | |||||||||
| Non-intensive carers | 12.36 | (8.62) | |||||||
| Intense carers | 15.99 | (12.83) | |||||||
| June 2020 | |||||||||
| Non-intensive carers | 19.20 | (13.57) | |||||||
| Intense carers | 27.23 | (13.90) | *** | ||||||
| Observations | 482 | ||||||||
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001. Intensive caregiving defined as more than 20 h of care per week. Full linear models include age categories and age categories interacted with post-onset, gender, foreign-born, family composition (children), household size, urban, education (ISCED), income and income interacted with post-onset, employment and employment interacted with post-onset