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Table 7 Change in mental health according to years since divorce and high or low-risk spouse

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

  

Divorced from high-risk users

Divorced from low-risk users

  

N

Meana

CI

N

Meana

CI

p

Women

       

.385

 

1–3 yrs

31

.69

.31–1.06

124

.41

.22–.60

 

4–7 yrs

42

.22

-.11–.54

210

.32

.18–.47

 

8–10 yrs

62

.11

-.15–.38

165

.14

-.02–.31

 
 

Total

135

.28

 

499

.29

  

Men

       

.018

 

1–3 yrs

35

1.07

.61–1.52

110

.83

.60–1.07

 

4–7 yrs

47

.20

-.20–.60

185

.40

.21–.58

 
 

8–10 yrs

39

.75

.31–1.19

144

.08

-.13–.28

 
 

Total

121

.63

 

439

.40

  
  1. a Adjusted group means in standard deviations.
  2. Interaction effects, shown in adjusted group means, between time since divorce and spouses’ alcohol use on change in subjects’ mental health. Effects are adjusted for age, education, subjects’ alcohol use, and mental health at T1. The estimates are adjusted group means on a standardized outcome variable, with a sample mean of 0.