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Table 3 Caregiver characteristics according to caregiver diabetes status

From: Effect of diabetes on caregiver burden in an observational study of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease

Characteristica

Overall N = 1494b

Caregivers with diabetes N = 127

Caregivers without diabetes N = 1367

P-value

Caregiver characteristics

Age, yearsc

67.3 (12.04)

72.4 (9.67)

66.9 (12.13)

<0.001

Sex, n (%) female

958 (64.2)

69 (54.3)

889 (65.1)

0.012

Marital status, n (%)

   

0.022

 Married/cohabiting

1316 (88.1)

123 (96.9)

1193 (87.3)

 

 Widowed

38 (2.5)

1 (0.8)

37 (2.7)

 

 Divorced/separated

70 (4.7)

1 (0.8)

69 (5.1)

 

 Never married

69 (4.6)

2 (1.6)

67 (4.9)

 

Relationship to the patient, n (%)

   

<0.001

 Wife

503 (33.7)

50 (39.4)

453 (33.2)

 

 Husband

481 (32.2)

53 (41.7)

428 (31.3)

 

 Child

405 (27.1)

13 (10.2)

392 (28.7)

 

 Friend

20 (1.3)

2 (1.6)

18 (1.3)

 

 Other

84 (5.6)

9 (7.1)

75 (5.5)

 

Caregiver lives with the patient, n (%)

1135 (76.0)

113 (89.0)

1022 (74.8)

<0.001

Caregivers with medical conditionsd, n (%)

127 (100)

748 (54.7)

875 (58.6)

0.178

Diabetes drug use, n (%)

 

118 (92.9)

  
  1. aData are presented as mean (SD) unless indicated otherwise. Percentages reported are for caregivers with data available for each specific variable. Missing data (overall) were n = 1 for all variables, except medical conditions and diabetes drug use (no missing data)
  2. bDiabetes status was unknown for one caregiver, thus N = 1494
  3. cThe Case Report Form collected only birth year data, thus the missing month and day were imputed with 15 July. Age is the year part of the difference between the date of Informed Consent and the imputed birth date
  4. dData include the presence of diabetes
  5. P-values are for the comparison between caregiver diabetes groups (ANOVA for continuous variables, with country and diabetes status as factors, and Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test for categorical variables, with stratification by country)
  6. P-values indicating statistically significant differences between caregiver diabetes groups (p < 0.05) are highlighted in bold type