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Table 8 Change in mental health according to years since divorce and high or low-risk subject

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 high-risk users

Divorced low-risk users

  

N

Meana

CI

N

Meana

CI

p

Women

       

.062

 

1–3 yrs

29

1.03

.55–1.51

126

.33

.16–.55

 
 

4–7 yrs

53

.65

.28–1.01

199

.24

.09–.44

 
 

8–10 yrs

36

.15

-.30–.59

191

.12

-.08–.20

 
 

Total

118

.59

 

516

.21

  

Men

       

.417

 

1–3 yrs

37

1.23

.75–1.70

108

.79

.56–1.03

 
 

4–7 yrs

36

.43

-.06–.91

196

.32

.14–.49

 

8–10 yrs

49

.66

.25–1.08

134

.09

-.12–.30

 
 

Total

122

.76

 

438

.36

  
  1. a Adjusted group means in standard deviations.
  2. Interaction effects, shown in adjusted group means, between time since divorce and subjects’ 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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