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Table 4 Change in mental health for spouses of high and low-risk alcohol users

From: More mental health problems after divorce in couples with high pre-divorce alcohol consumption than in other divorced couples: results from the HUNT-study

  

High-risk spouse

Low-risk spouse

  

N

Meana

CI

N

Meana

CI

p

Women

       

.394

 

Divorced

135

.21

.06-.35

499

.26

.18-.33

 

Not divorced

1514

.03

-.01-.07

10605

-.04

-.05- -.02

 
 

Total

1649

.04

 

11104

-.02

  

Men

       

.009

 

Divorced

121

.54

.38-.70

439

.27

.19-.36

 

Not divorced

946

-.01

-.05-.07

9252

-.03

-.05- -.01

 
 

Total

1067

.07

 

9691

-.01

  
  1. a Mental health at T2 is standardized.
  2. Interaction effects, shown in adjusted group means, between divorce and spouses’ alcohol use on change in subjects’ mental health. Effects are adjusted for age, education, subjects’ own alcohol use, and mental health at T1. The estimates are adjusted group means on a standardized outcome variable, with a sample mean of 0.
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BMC Public Health

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