Table 3 Correlations between person with dementia and carer QoL measures (Pearson’s r and p-values)

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

		Person with dementia				Carer (all self-reports)
		EQ-5D (self)	CASP-19 (self)	DEMQOL-Proxy	EQ-5D (proxy)	Carer EQ-5D	SF-12 Physical	SF-12 Mental
Person with dementia	DEMQOL (self)	0.56 (p < 0.001)	0.72 (p < 0.001)	0.39 (p < 0.001)	0.20 (p = 0.003)	0.11 (p = 0.13)	0.10 (p = 0.19)	0.09 (p = 0.23)
	EQ-5D (self)		0.58 (p < 0.001)	0.33 (p < 0.001)	0.36 (p < 0.001)	0.12 (p = 0.09)	0.14 (p = 0.06)	0.18 (p = 0.02)
	CASP-19 (self)			0.33 (p < 0.001)	0.21 (p = 0.01)	0.09 (p = 0.29)	0.11 (p = 0.19)	0.06 (p = 0.49)
	DEMQOL-Proxy				0.16 (p = 0.005)	0.20 (p = 0.001)	0.13 (p = 0.03)	0.31 (p = < 0.001)
	EQ-5D (proxy)					0.02 (p = 0.77)	−0.01 (p = 0.92)	0.07 (p = 0.28)
Carer	EQ-5D						0.71 (p < 0.001)	0.25 (p < 0.001)
Carer	SF-12 Physical							−0.05 (p = 0.41)

Statistics in bold highlight remained significant after correcting for multiple comparisons (Holm-Bonferroni Sequential Correction, p < 0.05)

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