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Table 7 Factors associated with musculoskeletal diagnoses

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

Variables

Unadjusted

Adjusted

OR (95% CI)

p-value

OR (95% CI)

p-value

CDR-SOB

0.94 (0.90; 0.97)

0.002

−0.03 (0.02)1

0.092

Males

0.10 (0.04; 0.26)

< 0.001

−2.71 (0.50)1

< 0.001

Age

1.07 (1.03; 1.11)

< 0.001

1.02 (0.99; 1.04)

0.130

Education (≥10 years)

1.04 (0.60; 1.79)

0.888

1.68 (1.12; 2.52)

0.014

GMHR

 Good – ref.

1

1

 Fairly good

3.18 (1.63; 6.18)

0.001

1.72 (1.05; 2.82)

0.037

 Poor

1.95 (1.07; 3.55)

0.030

1.11 (0.66; 1.87)

0.703

 Very poor

2.00 (0.94; 4.24)

0.070

1.23 (0.63; 2.40)

0.542

PSMS score

0.97 (0.93; 0.99)

0.039

  

NPI Agitation subsyndrome

0.97 (0.94; 0.99)

0.006

  

NPI Psychosis subsyndrome

0.96 (0.93; 0.99)

0.044

  

NPI Affective subsyndrome

1.01 (0.97; 1.05)

0.594

  

NPI Apathy

0.93 (0.88; 0.99)

0.018

  

Number of physical diagnoses

2.86 (2.15; 3.81)

< 0.001

2.16 (1.96; 2.38)

< 0.001

Duration in NH (LN)

0.88 (0.74; 1.05)

0.165

0.87 (0.76; 0.99)

0.044

Type of NH unit

 Regular – ref.

1

  

 Special care

0.67 (0.44; 1.02)

0.064

  

 Rehabilitation

1.71 (0.62; 4.73)

0.298

  

 Other

1.34 (0.67; 2.70)

0.403

  

CDR-SOB x Females

  

0.06 (0.04)1

0.174

  1. Unadjusted and adjusted analyses using generalized linear mixed model. GMHR included as explanatory variable
  2. CDR-SOB Clinical Dementia Rating - Sum of Boxes, GMHR General Medical Health Rating, PSMS Physical Self-Maintenance Scale, NPI Neuropsychiatric Inventory, NH Nursing Home, LN Natural Logarithm
  3. 1Regression coefficient (standard error) as the OR has no interpretation for interaction and variables included into interaction term