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Table 1 Sample characteristics at baseline

From: Physical diagnoses in nursing home residents - is dementia or severity of dementia of importance?

 

Total

CDR < 1

CDR ≥ 1

P-value3

 

N (%)

2983 (100)

513 (17.2)

2470 (82.8)

 

Sociodemographics

 Age

Mean (SD)

85.1 (7.9)

84.3 (9.2)

85.3 (7.6)

0.0191

 Females

N (%)

2132 (71.5)

352 (68.6)

1780 (72.1)

0.1371

 Education < 10 years

N (%)

2227 (79.7)

376 (78.7)

1851 (80.0)

0.1732

 Married

N (%)

630 (21.1)

86 (16.9)

544 (22.2)

0.0182

Health condition

 GMHR

    

< 0.0012

  Good

N (%)

474 (16.1)

101 (20.1)

373 (15.3)

 

  Fairly good

N (%)

1097 (37.3)

220 (43.7)

877 (36.0)

 

  Poor

N (%)

1033 (35.1)

142 (28.2)

891 (36.6)

 

  Very poor

N (%)

335 (11.4)

40 (8.0)

295 (12.1)

 

 PSMS score

Mean (SD)

18.0 (5.4)

14.9 (5.0)

18.6 (5.2)

< 0.0011

 NPI Agitation subsyndrome

Mean (SD)

6.0 (8.2)

2.3 (5.1)

6.7 (8.5)

< 0.0011

 NPI Psychosis subsyndrome

Mean (SD)

2.7 (5.1)

0.9 (3.2)

3.1 (5.3)

< 0.0011

 NPI Affective subsyndrome

Mean (SD)

3.5 (5.2)

2.4 (4.3)

3.7 (5.3)

< 0.0011

 NPI Apathy

Mean (SD)

2.0 (3.5)

0.8 (2.3)

2.3 (3.7)

< 0.0011

 Number of drugs

Mean (SD)

6.6 (3.2)

7.7 (3.6)

6.4 (3.1)

< 0.0011

 Days in NH4

Mean (SD)

931.0 (997.9)

882.5 (1162.8)

941.1 (960.0)

< 0.0011

  1. CDR Clinical Dementia Rating, GMHR General Medical Health Rating, PSMS Physical Self-Maintenance Scale, NPI Neuropsychiatric Inventory, NH Nursing Home
  2. 1Adjusted for intra-patient correlations
  3. 2Adjusted for NH-level
  4. 3Calculated by estimating linear mixed model for continuous variables and generalized linear mixed model for categorical variables
  5. 4p-value calculated on LN-transformed days in NH