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Table 1 Cross tabulation – respondents to the South Australian Health Omnibus who had someone close to them die in the 5 years before responding from an ‘expected’ death and provided a level of active hands-on care (day-to-day and intermittent care; n = 1504; weighted data)

From: The caregiving perspective in heart failure: a population based study

Respondents who had someone close to them die from an expected death in the 5 years before responding who provided care for someone with …

 

…heart failure

… a diagnosis other than heart failure

Respondents

 Factors that do not change as caregiving is relinquished

 

Factor

Fraction

%

Fraction

%

p value**

 

Gender – male

30/84

35.7

526/1420

37.0

0.806

 

Age of respondent – 65+

23/84

27.4

283/1420

19.9

0.099

 

Educational attainment – beyond school

36/84

42.9

764/1420

53.8

0.051

 

Country of birth – non-English speaking

12/84

14.3

142/1420

10.0

0.208

 

Relationship to the deceased – spouse

14/84

16.7

178/1420

12.5

0.270

 Factors that may change as caregiving is relinquished

 

Household income ≤ AU$60,000

50/68

73.5

819/1240

66.0

0.203

 

Current work status – full or part time

31/74

41.9

668/1205

55.4

0.023

 

Region of residence – metropolitan

52/83

62.7

952/1420

67.0

0.409

 

SEIFA index –lowest 60%

47/84

56.0

626/1420

44.1

0.034

 Caregiving characteristics

 

Level of care – day-to-day

35/84

41.7

634/1420

44.6

0.593

 

Length of care – ≤ 1 year

30/51

58.8

540/969

55.7

0.664

 

Had enough support

19/73

26.0

339/1207

28.1

0.704

 Post-care factors

 

Time since death. ≤ 2 years

48/83

57.8

803/1412

56.9

0.863

 

Moving on with life – able to move on

66/83

79.5

1133/1408

80.5

0.832

 

Would care again – yes

21/23

91.3

279/299

93.3

0.713

 

Sought help for grief or wished they had – yes*

11/30

36.7

226/590

38.3

0.857

The deceased

 

Age of the deceased >65*

26/30

86.7

428/592

72.3

0.094#

 

Comfortable or very comfortable in the last 2 weeks of life*

9/20

45.0

156/378

41.3

0.741

 

Place of death – institution (hospital or hospice)*

20/29

69.0

405/593

68.3

0.940

Service factors

 

Palliative care service use – yes

32/84

38.1

865/1420

60.9

0.000

  1. * only asked in 2006.
  2. # Fisher’s exact test.
  3. ** Using a Bonferroni correction, a significant p value should be set at 0.0025: Fisher’s Exact test used.