Caregiving, care burden and awareness of caregivers and patients with dementia in Asian locations: a secondary analysis

Table 2 Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with dementia

	Total	South Korea	China	Taiwan	Singapore	Philippines	Hong Kong	Thailand	p-value
	(n = 524)	(n = 259)	(n = 101)	(n = 73)	(n = 52)	(n = 23)	(n = 10)	(n = 6)
Age, years	75.68 ± 7.07	75.21 ± 6.89	74.61 ± 7.26	76.85 ± 7.42	75.65 ± 7.19	78.52 ± 4.52	80.20 ± 6.88	81.17 ± 8.04	0.01
Sex (male:female)	203:321	117:142	36:65	20:53	15:37	10:13	4:6	1:5	0.053
Duration of education, years	7.22 ± 5.33	6.36 ± 4.83	9.87 ± 5.37	6.33 ± 4.63	5.13 ± 4.75	14.39 ± 3.94	3.20 ± 4.96	8.00 ± 6.23	< 0.001
MMSE score	18.66 ± 5.45 (n = 504)	19.93 ± 4.73 (n = 255)	18.16 ± 6.25 (n = 99)	16.41 ± 5.23 (n = 73)	17.00 ± 5.07 (n = 51)	17.96 ± 6.83 (n = 23)		14.67 ± 8.39 (n = 3)	< 0.001
CDR (range)	0.94 ± 0.53 (0.5–3)	0.84 ± 0.44 (0.5–3)	1.07 ± 0.66 (0.5–3)	0.97 ± 0.51 (0.5–2)	1.10 ± 0.52 (0.5–3)	1.11 ± 0.58 (0.5–2)	0.95 ± 0.60 (0.5–2)	0.67 ± 0.26 (0.5–1)	< 0.001
CDR-SOB	5.26 ± 3.17 (n = 522)	4.61 ± 2.67 (n = 257)	6.35 ± 3.73 (n = 101)	5.32 ± 3.28 (n = 73)	6.16 ± 3.27 (n = 52)	6.13 ± 3.52 (n = 23)	5.15 ± 3.28 (n = 10)	3.25 ± 1.13 (n = 6)	< 0.001

Data are presented as n or mean ± standard deviation
CDR Clinical dementia rating, CDR-SOB Clinical dementia rating-sum of boxes, MMSE Mini-mental state exam

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