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Table 5 Patient and caregiver participants (at t0)

From: Contextual factors influencing advance care planning in home care: process evaluation of the cluster-randomised controlled trial STADPLAN

Participant

Age (mean)

Women

Care dependencya

Living situation

Patient

Main trial (n = 380)

79.9

66.8%

Low: 73.7%

Medium: 23.4%

High: 0.3%

Unknown: 2.6%

N/A

Patient

Process evaluation (n = 79)

77.7

64.6%

Low: 74.7%

Medium: 24.1%

High: 0.0%

Unknown: 1.3%

Alone: 69.6%

Cohabitating: 30.4%

Caregiver (n = 12)

67.9

83.3%

N/A

With patient: 58.3%

Near patient (< 2,5 km): 33.3%

  1. aLow: German grades 0/1/2; Medium: German grades 3/4; High: German grade 5, as assessed by expert raters of the German statutory health insurance