Who is responsible for providing care? Investigating the role of care tasks and past experiences in a cross-sectional survey in the Netherlands

Table 4 Multivariate statistics of views on responsibility for care among current caregivers and background characteristics, health and informal care characteristics, according to type of care (care in general; model D, personal or nursing care; model E, and support activities; model F)

		Views on responsibility for^a:
		MODEL D		MODEL E		MODEL F
		Care in general (n = 223)		Personal or nursing care (n = 225)		Support activities (n = 226)
		St. coeff.	P-value	St. coeff.	P-value	St. coeff.	P-value
Background characteristics
Age		−0.09	0.285	−0.01	0.251	−0.05	0.536
Gender (ref. male)	female	0.24	0.000	0.15	0.030	0.26	0.000
Educational level (ref. high)	low	0.28	0.001	0.26	0.002	0.20	0.019
Educational level (ref. high)	middle	0.16	0.039	0.12	0.138	0.13	0.094
Marital status (ref. married/reg. partner)	divorced/widowed	0.03	0.677	−0.02	0.756	0.06	0.365
Marital status (ref. married/reg. partner)	never been married	0.17	0.010	0.13	0.054	0.15	0.030
Income (ref. high)	low	−0.04	0.648	−0.04	0.674	−0.02	0.810
Income (ref. high)	middle	0.05	0.542	0.03	0.675	0.06	0.459
Employment status (ref. no paid work)	fulltime	0.13	0.091	0.14	0.092	0.09	0.271
Employment status (ref. no paid work)	part-time	0.07	0.341	0.10	0.207	0.02	0.787
Health
General health (ref. (very) good/excellent)	moderate/bad	−0.02	0.758	−0.03	0.654	0.00	0.984
Level of physical disability (ref. no)	mild	−0.06	0.404	−0.12	0.098	0.01	0.934
Level of physical disability (ref. no)	moderate/severe	0.14	0.088	0.09	0.277	0.14	0.084
Infomal care characteristics
Subjective burden^b		−0.17	0.029	−0.17	0.030	−0.12	0.139
Constant (coef.)		3.16	0.000	3.86	0.000	2.25	0.000
Adjusted R2		0.17		0.11		0.12

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