Health impact of providing informal care in Portugal

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Regression results for caregiving inside the household and health

Physical health				Depressive symptoms
	b	se	p value	OR	IC (95%)	p value
Caregiving inside the household	0.048	0.035	0.167	1.609	1.141–2.271	0.007
Observations/persons	2124/1213			2124/1213

Note: SHARE Wave 4 and wave 6, release 6.1.0.; b Coefficients; se Standard error, OR Odds Ratio, IC Intervals Confidence, Pr Probability, I Controls: age, sex, current job situation, marital status, education, income, depressive symptoms, cognitive function, physical inactivity, social network scale and quality of life; II = Controls: age, sex, current job situation, marital status, education, income, physical health, cognitive function, physical inactivity, social network scale and quality of life; own calculations, unweighted. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001

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