Mental health and wellbeing in spouses of persons with dementia: the Nord-Trøndelag health study

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Crude and adjusted associations between dementia diagnosis and partners’ outcomes

	Life satisfaction					Depressive symptoms							Anxiety symptoms
	Spouse at institution			Living together		Spouse at institution				Living together			Spouse at institution			Living together
	B	CI	p	B	CI	p	B	CI	p	B	CI	p	B	CI	p	B	CI	p
0	1.07	0.71 – 1.44	***	0.28	0.06 – 0.49	*	0.52	0.16 – 0.89	*	0.48	0.27 – 0.69	***	0.46	0.10 – 0.83	*	0.27	0.06 – 0.49	**
*Adjusted for confounders*
1	1.07	0.71 – 1.44	***	0.27	0.06 – 0.49	*	0.52	0.16 – 0.89	*	0.49	0.28 – 0.70	***	0.46	0.10 – 0.82	*	0.25	0.04 – 0.46	*
2	1.16	0.80 – 1.53	***	0.35	0.14 – 0.57	**	0.40	0.03 – 0.76	*	0.38	0.17 – 0.59	***	0.43	0.02 – 0.44	*	0.23	0.02 – 0.44	*
3	1.16	0.80 – 1.52	***	0.34	0.13 – 0.56	**	0.38	0.02 – 0.74	*	0.38	0.16 – 0.59	***	0.42	0.06 – 0.78	*	0.23	0.02 – 0.44	*
4	1.16	0.79 – 1.52	***	0.35	0.14 – 0.57	**	0.38	0.02 – 0.74	*	0.38	0.17 – 0.60	***	0.42	0.06 – 0.79	*	0.23	0.02 – 0.44	*
*Adjusted for all confounders and each of the mediators*
5	1.09	0.75 – 1.43	***	0.30	0.10 – 0.50	**	0.32	-0.02 – 0.66		0.34	0.14 – 0.54	***	0.37	0.03 – 0.72	*	0.19	-0.01 –0.39
6	1.13	0.77 – 1.49	***	0.33	0.12 – 0.55	**	0.35	-0.01 – 0.71		0.36	0.15 – 0.57	***	0.41	0.05 – 0.77	*	0.22	0.01 – 0.43	*
7	1.14	0.78 – 1.49	***	0.35	0.14 – 0.56	**	0.35	0.00 – 0.70		0.38	0.18 – 0.59	***	0.41	0.05 – 0.77	*	0.23	0.02 – 0.44	*
*Adjusted for all confounders and all mediators*
	1.06	0.73 – 1.40	***	0.28	0.14 - 0.50	**	0.28	-0.05 – 0.62		0.33	0.13 - 0.52	***	0.36	0.01 – 0.70	*	0.19	-0.01 -0.39

0 = Unadjusted; 1 = Gender; 2 = 1 + Age; 3 = 2 + Income and education; 4 = 3 + Spousal age difference; 5 = 4+ Subjective health/impaired functioning; 6 = 4 + cultural activities; 7 = 4 + social support.
***p < 0.001 **p < 0.01 *p < 0.05. B-values indicate differences between the dementia caregivers and the reference spouses in fractions of standard deviation.

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