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Table 2 Interaction between care recipient's gender and care-giving arrangement in Cox proportional hazard models

From: Mothers and daughters-in-law: a prospective study of informal care-giving arrangements and survival in Japan

 

Model I*

Model II**

Variable names

HR (95% CI)

P

HR (95% CI)

P

Care recipient's gender

    

   Female

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Male

3.97 (1.17 - 13.42)

0.027

5.13 (2.25 - 11.69)

< 0.0001

Informal care-giving arrangement

    

   Spousal care

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Daughter-in-law care

4.09 (1.23 - 13.58)

0.022

4.40 (1.60 - 12.10)

0.004

   Other categories (biological daughter care/other relative care/living alone)

1.55 (0.45 - 5.39)

0.491

1.26 (0.55 - 2.90)

0.580

Interaction

    

   Male gender * Daughter-in-law care

0.09 (0.01 - 0.57)

0.011

0.08 (0.02 - 0.46)

0.004

   Male gender * Other categories

0.66 (0.14 - 3.11)

0.601

  
  1. * No adjusting variables in this model.
  2. ** Adjusting care recipient's age, baseline care needs level, number of people living together, daycare service use, home-help servie use, home-visit nursing service use, home-visit nursing use, respite stay, and institutional care use