Dementia as a predictor of care-related quality of life in informal caregivers: a cross-sectional study to investigate differences in health-related outcomes between dementia and non-dementia caregivers

Table 3 ANCOVA Results for QoL by ‘Dementia’ Controlling for the Covariates Sex CG, Age CG, Depressiveness and Employment Status (N = 386)

	SS	dF	F	p	partial η ²
Dementia	17.14	1	4.54	0.034	.012
Depressiveness (PHQ-9)	1292.03	1	342.21	< 0.001	.474
Sex CG	1.82	1	0.48	0.489	.001
Age CG	25.17	1	6.67	0.010	.017
Employment status	30.89	1	8.18	0.004	.021
Error	1434.72	380	3.78

PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire-9, SS Sum of Squares, dF Degrees of Freedom, partial η² proportion of the total variability in QoL attributable to a factor or covariate (effect size measure); R² = .513 (Adj. R² = .507)

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