Does Death of a Family Member Moderate the Relationship between Religious Attendance and Depressive Symptoms? The HUNT Study, Norway

Table 3

Multiple regression model for depressive symptoms’ relation to death in immediate family, religious attendance, age, gender, relationship status, and education (a), and the same model including the interaction term “Religious attendance by Death in immediate family” (b).

(a) Regression model for entire sample

	Coefficients^a	𝑃 values
Death in immediate family (ref. “No”)	0.36	<0.001
Religious attendance (ref. “Never”)		<0.001
>3x/month	−0.18	0.03
1–3x/month	−0.26	<0.001
1–6x/last 6 months	−0.25	<0.001
Age	0.03	<0.001
Women (ref. “men”)	−0.35	<0.001
Married/Couple (ref. “unmarried/not couple”)	−0.41	<0.001
Low education, ≤12 years (ref. “>12 years”)	0.58	<0.001
𝑅^2	0.057

(b) Regression model including interaction term

	Coefficients^a,b	𝑃 values
Death in immediate family (ref. “No”)^c	0.49	<0.001
Religious attendance^d		<0.001
>3x/month	−0.10	0.24
1–3x/month	−0.25	<0.001
1–6x/last 6 months	−0.24	<0.001
Religious attendance^e
>3x/month	−0.69	0.002
1–3x/month	−0.32	0.03
1–6x/last 6 months	−0.43	<0.001
Interaction term: “Religious attendance By Death in immediate family”		0.053
𝑅^2	0.057

^aUnstandardized.
^bAdjustment for age, sex, relationship status, and education.
^cDifference in the “Never” group for religious attendance.
^dDifferences from the “Never” group for religious attendance, within the “No”-group for death in immediate family.
^eDifferences from the “Never” group for religious attendance, within the “Yes”-group for death in immediate family.