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. 2021 Jun 16;9:673874. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.673874

Table 1.

Adjusted predictions of health-related outcomes by caregiving and changes in parental caregiving.

Non-caregivers (%) Caregivers (%) Parental caregivers, personal care → / ↓ (%) Parental caregivers, personal care ↑ (%)
Worsened health 8 7 6 6
Affected by COVID-19 7 9 13 13
Felt sad/depressed more often 16 19** 13 27***
Felt anxious/nervous more often 21 26** 21 36***
Had trouble sleeping more often 8 10 10 12
Felt lonely more often 12 13 11 12
N 49,969 1,710 439 452

Data: SHARE Wave 8 COVID-19 Survey 1, release version: 0.0.1 beta and SHARE Wave 8, release version: 0 (weighted). Entries are adjusted predictions, controlling for sex; age; level of education; household composition; area of living; economic status; (self-) employment; self-rated health; ADL, IADL, and GALI before the pandemic; and respondent's country. Significance level:

*

p < 0.05,

**

p < 0.01,

***

p < 0.001 [significances based on average marginal effects (AMEs) refer to respective previous column].