Can brief telephone interventions reduce caregiver burden and depression in caregivers of people with cognitive impairment? - long-term results of the German day-care study (RCT)

Table 3 Secondary Analysis: Multiple linear regression analysis with caregiver burden after 12 months (T2) as the dependent variable (n = 304)

Caregiver Burden (12-month follow up = T2)
					95% CI
Predictors	Unstand. ß	Standardized ß	T	p	Lower limit	Upper limit
Group (CG/IG)	−1.462	−.087	−1.708	.089	−3.147	.223
Age caregiver	.081	.113	2.132	.034	.006	.156
Sex caregiver (0 = female, 1 = male)	−2.249	−.118	−2.301	.022	−4.172	−.326
MAKS therapy available in day-care for the last 6 months (t1-t2)	.093	.005	.098	.922	−1.775	1.961
Frequency of day-care use	−.194	−.024	−.476	.634	−.995	.607
Activities of daily living (ETAM)	−.025	−.022	−.407	.684	−.148	.097
Informal care time per day (h)	.749	.219	4.215	<.001	.399	1.099
Major adverse event in the care of the PCI in the last 6 months (0 = no, 1 = yes)	.957	.053	1.042	.298	−.851	2.765
Major event in the life situation of the caregiver in the last 6 months (0 = no, 1 = yes)	.886	.045	.865	.388	−1.130	2.902
Social behavior (NOSGER)	.117	.060	1.101	.272	−.092	.325
Neuropsychiatric symptomatology (NPI)	.671	.217	3.953	<.001	.337	1.004
No. of additional offers of formal care support	.436	.056	1.098	.273	−.345	1.218
Use of other offers of caregiver counseling (0 = no, 1 = yes)	3.591	.198	3.698	<.001	1.680	5.502

Significant p-values (<.05) are in bold.
Abbreviations: BSFC-s Burden Scale for Family Caregivers short (score), CG Control Group, IG Intervention Group, MAKS-therapy Multicomponent Therapy for cognitively impaired (motoric -, activities of daily living-, cognitive stimulation), ETAM Erlangen Test of Activities of Daily Living, PCI Person with cognitive impairment, NOSGER Nurses Observation Scale for Geriatric Patients, Subscale Social Behavior, NPI Neuropsychiatric Inventory

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