Table 4.
Characteristics of study subjects: pre and post spouse death (SD).
| Categorical Variables | Male Post SD |
ORm | Female Post SD |
ORm | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + | − | + | − | ||||||||
| Satisfied Income | +: Yes −: No |
Pre SD |
+ | 69 | 45 | 0.80 (NS) |
Pre SD |
+ | 104 | 68 | 0.94 (NS) |
| − | 56 | 86 | - | 72 | 210 | ||||||
| Smoking habit | +: Yes −: No |
Pre SD |
+ | 98 | 35 | 4.38 (***) |
Pre SD |
+ | 15 | 7 | 7.0 (*) |
| − | 8 | 115 | − | 1 | 431 | ||||||
| Alcohol drinking | +: Yes −: No |
Pre SD |
+ | 58 | 31 | 1.11 (NS) |
Pre SD |
+ | 18 | 20 | 1.11 (NS) |
| − | 28 | 139 | − | 18 | 398 | ||||||
| self-rated health | +: Yes −: No |
Pre SD |
+ | 162 | 44 | 1.42 (NS) |
Pre SD |
+ | 207 | 85 | 1.40 (*) |
| − | 31 | 19 | − | 61 | 101 | ||||||
| Mean | (sd) | p | Mean | (sd) | p | ||||||
| Depressive: Increasing means more depressive |
diff | 1.52 | (6.09) | *** | −1.31 | (7.49) | ** | ||||
| Mobility: Increasing means even worse |
diff | 0.33 | (1.25) | *** | −0.52 | (1.50) | *** | ||||
| RF support: Increasing means more support |
diff | 0.11 | (1.16) | NS | 0.05 | (1.15) | NS | ||||
* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.0001, RF support: relative and friend support.