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Table 5 Change in mental health for high and low-risk subjects

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 subject

Low-risk subject

  

N

Meana

CI

N

Meana

CI

P

Women

       

.022

 

Divorced

118

.51

.36–.67

516

.20

.13–.26

 

Not divorced

1051

.07

.01–.12

11068

-.03

-.05– -.02

 
 

Total

1169

.12

 

11584

-.02

  

Men

       

.108

 

Divorced

122

.67

.49–.86

438

.26

.18–.34

 

Not divorced

1264

.18

.12–.23

8934

-.06

-.07– -.04

 
 

Total

1386

.22

 

9372

-.04

  
  1. a Mental health at T2 is standardized.
  2. Interaction effects, shown in adjusted group means, between divorce and own alcohol use on change in mental health. Effects are adjusted for age, education, spouses’ 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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