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Table 1 Person with dementia, descriptive data by severity of cognitive impairment

From: Disease severity accounts for minimal variance of quality of life in people with dementia and their carers: analyses of cross-sectional data from the MODEM study

 

Mild

Moderate

Severe

Sig. Test

Age, mean (SD)

80.2 (7.2)

82.4 (8.8)

80.0 (9.2)

F = 2.50, p = 0.08

Gender: male, N (%)

62 (56.4%)

55 (55.6%)

34 (35.1%)

χ2 = 11.62, p = 0.003

Residential status: care home (v own household), N (%)

6 (5.5%)

17 (17.0%)

40 (41.2%)

χ2 = 41.59, p < 0.0001

Ethnicity: White British, N (%)

105 (96.3%)

88 (89.8%)

88 (90.7%)

χ2 = 13.03, p = 0.37

Diagnosis:

   

χ2 = 4.28, p = 0.83

AD, N (%)

63 (63.0%)

55 (57.9%)

58 (61.1%)

 

VaD, N (%)

13 (13.0%)

12 (12.6%)

14 (14.7%)

 

LBD, N (%)

2 (2.0%)

1 (1.1%)

3 (3.2%)

 

FTD, N (%)

4 (4.0%)

4 (4.2%)

1 (1.1%)

 

Other, N (%)

18 (18.0%)

23 (24.2%)

19 (20.0%)

 

sMMSE (↑ better cognition), mean (SD)

24.6 (0.2)

15.1 (2.9)

3.6 (3.2)

F = 1360.36, p < 0.0001

QOL SELF-REPORT

DEMQOL (↑ better QoL), mean (SD)

90.5 (13.18)

92.8 (12.6)

–

t = −1.23, p = 0.22

CASP total (↑ better QoL), mean (SD)

40.9 (9.5)

40.1 (8.0)

–

t = 0.58 p = 0.61

EQ-5D Index (↑ better QoL), mean (SD)

0.8 (0.2)

0.8 (0.2)

–

t = −0.08, p = 0.94

QOL PROXY-REPORT

DEMQOL-Proxy (↑ better QoL), mean (SD)

93.5 (13.7)

94.3 (14.4)

98.1 (13.0)

F = 3.18, p = 0.04

EQ-5D-proxy Index (↑ better QoL), mean (SD)

0.7 (0.3)

0.5 (0.3)

0.4 (0.3)

F = 26.76, p < 0.0001

COMORBIDITIES

NPI total (↑ more neuropsychiatric symptoms), mean (SD)

12.7 (11.0)

20.1 (15.5)

24.1 (16.3)

F = 15.51, p < 0.0001

  1. AD Alzheimer’s Disease, BADL Bristol Activities of Daily Living, CCI Charlson Comorbidity Index, FTD Frontotemporal Dementia, LBD Lewy Body Dementia, NPI Neuropsychiatric Inventory, QoL Quality of Life, sMMSE standardised Mini-Mental State Examination, OARS Older Adult Social Resource Scale, VaD Vascular Dementia
  2. F = F statistic derived from one-way Analysis of Variance, t = t value derived from t-test, χ2 = Chi-square value derived from a Pearson’s Chi-square test