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Table 2 Characteristics of participants - descriptive statistics

From: Pain treatment for nursing home residents differs according to cognitive state – a cross-sectional study

Characteristics of participants

Groups

All

CUSb

CI-Vc

CI-NVd

Sample size (n (%))

425 (100 %)

243 (57.2 %)

116 (27.3 %)

66 (15.5 %)

Sex female (n (%))

315 (74.1 %)

172 (70.8 %)

88 (75.9 %)

55 (83.3 %)

Age (Mean ± SD)

83.6 ± 8.8

82.5 ± 9.4

84.4 ± 7.8

86.1 ± 7.5*

Level of care (Median of range 1–7)

5

4*

5

5

Length of stay in months (Mean ± SD)

29.7 ± 23.9

27.8 ± 20.8

31.2 ± 27.8

34.5 ± 26.3

Number of diseases (Mean ± SD)

7,4 ± 4.3

8,0 ± 4.7*

6.8 ± 4.0

6.5 ± 3.2

Disease categories (n (%))

    

 Cardiology

305 (73.3 %)

179 (76.2 %)

83 (72.2 %)

43 (65.2 %)

 Neurology

295 (70.9 %)

145 (61.7 %)*

91 (79.1 %)

59 (89.4 %)

 Endocrinology

228 (54.8 %)

133 (56.6 %)

64 (55.7 %)

31 (47.0 %)

 Orthopedics

204 (49.0 %)

128 (54.5 %)*

46 (40.0 %)

30 (45.5 %)

Subgroups of ‘Red Diagnoses’ (n(%)a)

    

 Injuries and trauma sequelae

108 (49.1 %)

67 (48.6 %)

27 (54.0 %)

14 (43.8 %)

 Arthrosis

74 (33.6 %)

50 (36.2 %)

13 (26.0 %)

11 (34.4 %)

 Disorders of spine and extremities

67 (30.5 %)

49 (35.5 %)

11 (22.0 %)

7 (21.9 %)

 Neuropathic

22 (10.0 %)

15 (10.9 %)

4 (8.0 %)

3 (9.4 %)

Number of prescriptions scheduled permanently (PP) (Mean ± SD)

9.0 ± 3.9

9.7 ± 3.9

8.8 ± 3.9

6.8 ± 3.2*

  1. aPercentages are based on residents with at least one ‘Red Diagnosis’; significant test results are marked with * (p < 0.05)
  2. b cognitively unimpaired/slightly impaired, c cognitively moderately to severely impaired, verbally communicating, d cognitively moderately to severely impaired, not verbally communicating