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Table 1 Characteristics of the participants of the INSPIRED Study

From: Psychotropic medications in older people in residential care facilities and associations with quality of life: a cross-sectional study

Characteristic

All participants (n = 541)

Participants residing in a home-like model of care (n = 120)

Participants residing in a standard model of care (n = 421)

P value

Participant characteristics

 Age, mean (SD)

85.5 (8.5)

83.3 (9.0)

86.1 (8.3)

0.001

 Female, n (%)

403 (74.5)

90 (75.0)

313 (74.4)

0.89

 Married, n (%)

137 (25.4)

36 (30.0)

101 (24.1)

0.19

 Barthel Index, median (IQR)

35 (9–71)

34 (5–66)

36 (11–72)

0.18

 NPI, median (IQR)

7 (3–12)

10 (6–15)

6 (3–12)

< 0.001

 PAS-Cog, median (IQR)

15 (6–21)

21 (15–21)

12 (4–21)

< 0.001

 Number of co-morbid conditions, mean (SD)

3.7 (1.4)

3.2 (1.4)

3.8 (1.4)

< 0.001

  1. Abbreviations: IQR Inter-quartile range, P values are from chi-squared or Mann-Whitney tests