Table 2.
Factors Associated with Depressive Symptoms Among Caregivers of Older Adults with Dementia (N = 956)
| Friends and family to talk to | Friends and family help with activities | Friends and family to help with care | ||||
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| Variable | Estimate (95% CI) | p | Estimate (95% CI) | p | Estimate (95% CI) | p |
| Age | 0.01 (0.00, 0.01) | .046 | 0.005 (−0.002, 0.01) | .17 | 0.01 (−0.001, 0.01) | .11 |
| Female | 0.19 (−0.01, 0.39) | .06 | 0.15 (−0.05, 0.35) | .14 | 0.18 (−0.04, 0.39) | .11 |
| Race White Black Other |
0 [Reference] −0.13 (−0.33, 0.07) −0.26 (−0.44, −0.09) |
-- .19 .003 |
0 [Reference] −0.16 (−0.37, 0.06) −0.28 (−0.47, −0.08) |
-- .16 .005 |
0 [Reference] −0.18 (−0.40, 0.06) −0.28 (−0.48, −0.07) |
-- .14 .01 |
| Education Less than High School High School College |
0 [Reference] −0.08 (−0.29, 0.12) −0.30 (−0.53, −0.07) |
-- .43 .01 |
0 [Reference] −0.12 (−0.35, 0.12) −0.41 (−0.67, −0.14) |
-- .33 .003 |
0 [Reference] −0.15 (−0.39, 0.09) −0.48 (−0.79, −0.16) |
-- .22 .003 |
| Relation to person w/dementia Other Spouse Adult Child |
0 [Reference] 0.14 (−0.14, 0.41) 0.22 (0.02, 0.41) |
-- .32 .03 |
0 [Reference] 0.22 (−0.09, 0.53) 0.27 (0.02, 0.51) |
-- .16 .03 |
0 [Reference] 0.25 (−0.08, 0.58) 0.27 (0.03, 0.51) |
-- .14 .03 |
| Duration of caregiving | −0.004 (−0.01, 0.003) | .27 | −0.01 (−0.01, 0.003) | .24 | −0.01 (−0.01, 0.004) | .24 |
| ADL Score | 0.05 (0.01, 0.09) | .02 | 0.05 (0.01, 0.09) | .02 | 0.04 (0.00, 0.09) | .049 |
| IADL Score | −0.04 (−0.09, 0.02) | .18 | −0.05 (−0.12, 0.01) | .11 | −0.05 (−0.12, 0.02) | .14 |
| Social Support* Friends and family to talk to Friends and family to help with activities Friends and family to help with care |
−0.62 (−0.96, −0.28) - - |
<.001 - - |
- −0.22 (−0.44, −0.001) - |
- .049 - |
- - 0.05 (−0.17, 0.28) |
- - .65 |
| Neighborhood Disorder | 0.16 (−0.02, 0.33) | .08 | 0.14 (−0.08, 0.37) | .22 | 0.15 (−0.09, 0.40) | .22 |
| Social Cohesion | −0.22 (−0.35, −0.09) | <.001 | −0.32 (−0.53, −0.11) | .003 | −0.35 (−0.60, −0.10) | .01 |
Note. ADL = activities of daily living; IADL = instrumental activities of daily living. All estimates were weighted using the weights produced by the product of the inverse of the predicted probability of living within 5 minutes from the weighted logistic regression model and the NSOC analytic weights. Estimates are unstandardized.
*
This item is different for each model and listed at the top.