Factors Associated with Quality of Life among Caregivers of People with Spinal Cord Injury

Table 3

Results of hierarchical multiple linear regressions, including factors related to WHOQOL-BREF domains in caregivers of people with SCI.

	Physical Health		Psychological		Social Relationships		Environment
	(SE)		(SE)		(SE)		(SE)
Block 1: demographics
Age	0.13 (0.21)	0.523	-0.04 (0.19)	0.829	-0.13 (0.23)	0.578	0.02 (0.18)	0.893
Sex ()	-2.48 (3.04)	0.415	-3.55 (2.80)	0.207	-0.79 (3.28)	0.809	-0.49 (2.63)	0.853
Marital status ()	-3.34 (3.58)	0.352	-1.52 (3.29)	0.645	0.21 (3.86)	0.956	-9.12 (3.10)	0.004
Education level ()	-2.28 (3.02)	0.352	0.84 (2.78)	0.762	-5.10 (3.26)	0.120	-1.98 (2.61)	0.450
Employment ()	-1.88 (3.29)	0.569	-0.41 (3.03)	0.893	2.27 (3.56)	0.524	-1.33 (2.85)	0.642
Relationship ()	10.54 (5.35)	0.051	6.05 (4.92)	0.221	1.89 (5.77)	0.744	6.50 (4.63)	0.162
Level of injury ()	-16.65 (3.63)	<0.001	-14.51 (3.34)	<0.001	-11.17 (3.92)	0.005	-8.49 (3.14)	0.008
Model characteristics
Block 2: CBS subscales and BDI-II
General Strain-CBS	-1.88 (0.44)	<0.001	-0.63 (0.40)	0.117	-0.37 (0.50)	0.470	-0.22 (0.42)	0.597
Isolation-CBS	0.45 (0.76)	0.550	0.57 (0.70)	0.416	0.15 (0.87)	0.861	0.22 (0.72)	0.761
Disappointment-CBS	-0.25 (0.55)	0.647	-0.59 (0.51)	0.246	-0.25 (0.63)	0.688	-0.81 (0.52)	0.127
Emotional Involvement-CBS	0.01 (0.86)	0.990	-0.19 (0.79)	0.814	-0.49 (0.99)	0.622	-0.82 (0.82)	0.316
Environment-CBS	-0.073 (0.80)	0.366	-1.63 (0.73)	0.028	-1.59 (0.92)	0.087	-2.08 (0.76)	0.007
BDI-II	-0.35 (0.18)	0.052	-0.67 (0.16)	<0.001	-0.84 (0.20)	<0.001	-0.24 (0.17)	0.158
Model characteristics

BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory-II; CBS: Caregiver Burden Scale; : unstandardized coefficient; SE: standard error.