Association of dementia comorbidities with caregivers’ physical, psychological, social, and financial burden

BMC Geriatrics

Table 5 Association between care recipient’s latent class group and caregiver’s burden

Outcomes: caregiving burden	Risk factor: high comorbidity burden class (ref. = low burden class)
	Model 1^a	Model 2^b	Model 3^c
	Beta coefficient (95% CI)
Physical Burden	0.52 (0.30, 0.73) ^*	0.46 (0.11, 0.80) ^*	0.46 (0.13, 0.80) ^*
Psychological Burden	0.60 (-0.10, 1.29)	0.40 (-0.30, 1.10)	0.31 (-0.43, 1.04)
Social Burden	0.37 (0.17, 0.57) ^*	-0.02 (-0.29, 0.25)	-0.01 (-0.24, 0.22)
Financial Burden	0.03 (-0.04, 0.10)	0.01 (-0.08, 0.10)	0.01 (-0.09, 0.10)
Caregiving Gain	0.01 (-0.08, 0.11)	-0.01 (-0.13, 0.11)	-0.02 (-0.15, 0.13)

Note. Abbreviations: CI confidence interval
^* p < 0.05
^a Model 1 adjusted for care recipient’s gender, age, and race
^b Model 2 adjusted for care recipient’s gender, age, and race; and caregiver’s gender, age, race, relationship to care recipient, education level, caregiving hours, and long-term caregiving
^c Model 3 adjusted for care recipient’s gender, age, and race; caregiver’s gender, age, race, relationship to care recipient, education level, caregiving hours, and long-term caregiving, caregiving activities (help care recipient with ADL-IADL, health management, medical tasks), and formal and informal caregiving support

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