The relationship between pain and disruptive behaviors in nursing home resident with dementia

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Predicting disruptive behaviors from pain severity, after controlling for covariates (N = 56,577)

Variables	Wandering			Aggression			Agitation
Variables	B	OR	95% CI for OR	B	OR	95% CI for OR	B	OR	95% CI for OR
Independent Variable
Pain	−0.26^*	0.77	[0.73, 0.81]	0.04^*	1.04	[1.01, 1.08]	0.15^*	1.17	[1.13, 1.20]
Covariates
MDS-CPS	0.68^*	1.97	[1.91, 2.02]	0.36^*	1.43	[1.41, 1.46]	0.46^*	1.58	[1.55, 1.60]
MDS-ADL	−0.15^*	0.87	[0.86, 0.87]	−0.03^*	0.98	[0.97, 0.98]	−0.02^*	0.98	[0.97, 0.98]
Age	−0.01^*	0.99	[0.98, 0.99]	−0.01^*	0.99	[0.99, 0.99]	−0.01^*	0.99	[0.99, 0.99]
Sex
Male	0.22^*	1.25	[1.17, 1.33]	0.28^*	1.33	[1.27, 1.39]	0.24^*	1.27	[1.22, 1.33]
Female	0.00	1.00		0.00	1.00			1.00

Nagelkerke R-square: Wandering = 0.15, Aggression = 0.06, Agitation = 0.08. B = logistic regression coefficient, OR = Odds Ratio = Exp(B). MDS-CPS = MDS-Cognitive Performance Scale. MDS-ADL = MDS-Activities of Daily Living impairment scale. ^* p < .001.

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