Predictors of long-term care use - informal home care recipients versus private and public facilities residents in Poland

Wrotek, Małgorzata; Kalbarczyk, Małgorzata

doi:10.1186/s12877-023-04216-2

Table 2 Summary statistics of variables used in explanatory analysis (unweighted data)

From: Predictors of long-term care use - informal home care recipients versus private and public facilities residents in Poland

	Inpatient private rest homes		Inpatient residential homes		Inpatient nursing homes		Informal home		No LTC
	Obs.	%^b/mean^c	Obs.	%^b/mean^c	Obs.	%^b/mean^c	Obs.	%^b/mean^c	Obs.	%^b/mean^c
Binary (=1) and category variables
I. PREDISPOSING
Sex (Female)	739	74.42^b	2165	54.00^b	841	70.27^b	307	60.59^b	1754	55.07^b
Primary education	110	23.66^b	995	48.04^b	259	59.27^b	136	44.88^b	457	26.07^b
Secondary education	248	53.33^b	970	46.84^b	150	34.32^b	144	47.52^b	1106	63.09^b
Tertiary education	107	23.01^b	106	5.12^b	28	6.41^b	23	7.59^b	190	10.84^b
II. ENABLING
Living partner	693	12.55^b	2084	6.09^b	681	16.45^b	307	52.12^b	1754	75.20^b
Living children	721	85.99^b	2068	48.98^b	748	79.55^b	271	92.25^b	1437	92.35^b
Frequency of visits ≥ once a week	686	26.97^b	2004	7.93^b	675	25.33^b	243	65.43^b	-	-
Place of living - village	146	19.95^b	651	30.18^b	320	44.02^b	116	55.77^b	530	48.49^b
Place of living - small town	170	23.22^b	381	17.66^b	194	26.69^b	21	10.10^b	95	8.69^b
Place of living - medium town	89	12.16^b	323	14.97^b	83	11.42^b	37	17.79^b	250	22.87^b
Place of living - big city	327	44.67^b	802	37.18^b	130	17.88^b	34	16.35^b	218	19.95^b
III. NEED
ADL - Bathing	739	89.17^b	2165	79.58^b	841	86.33^b	306	37.58^b	1750	2.23^b
ADL - Dressing	739	74.83^b	2165	55.01^b	841	81.09^b	306	40.20^b	1750	5.94^b
ADL - Transferring	739	65.09^b	2165	41.43^b	841	77.76^b	306	17.32^b	1750	0.97^b
ADL - Feeding	739	39.38^b	2165	19.95^b	841	45.30^b	306	19.61^b	1750	0.91^b
ADL - Toileting or continence	739	74.56^b	2165	48.45^b	841	75.62^b	306	20.59^b	1750	1.14^b
Parkinson disease	739	6.5^b	2165	4.34^b	841	4.64^b	307	2.28^b	1750	0.51^b
Heart diseases (incl. myocardial infarction)	739	8.39^b	2165	22.96^b	841	13.20^b	307	35.50^b	1750	16.74^b
Respiratory system diseases	739	3.65^b	2165	6.93^b	841	4.52^b	307	12.70^b	1750	5.77^b
Hypertension	739	19.89^b	2165	50.39^b	841	47.32^b	307	65.47^b	1750	50.97^b
Diabetes	739	12.31^b	2165	19.49^b	841	17.72^b	307	25.08^b	1750	19.60^b
Chronic renal failure	739	3.79^b	2165	7.16^b	841	7.85^b	307	6.51^b	1750	1.89^b
Depression	739	7.71^b	2165	12.24^b	841	12.01^b	307	14.33^b	1750	6.40^b
Alzheimer or dementia diseases	739	48.85^b	2165	42.22^b	841	41.38^b	307	10.75^b	1750	1.43^b
Mental health problems - other	739	8.66^b	2165	35.57^b	841	11.30^b	307	14.66^b	1750	6.74^b
Cancer^a	739	5.28^b	2165	6.74^b	841	0.36^b	307	11.73^b	1750	6.34^b
Vision impairment	739	7.98^b	2165	18.48^b	841	16.65^b	307	21.17^b	1750	8.06^b
Hearing impairment	739	14.34^b	2165	16.03^b	841	20.10^b	307	9.45^b	1750	4.23^b
Other diseases (incl. stroke, somatic problems)	739	24.49^b	2165	70.12^b	841	31.63^b	307	69.71^b	1750	44.00^b
Continuous variables
I. PREDISPOSING
Age	739	83.03^c	2165	76.43^c	839	79.92^c	307	74.65^c	1754	66.89^c
III. NEED
Numbers of ADL limitations	739	3.43^c	2165	2.44^c	841	3.66^c	306	1.35^c	1750	0.11^c
Numbers of chronic diseases	739	1.71^c	2165	3.12^c	841	2.28^c	307	2.99^c	1750	1.72^c

^aCancer might be not comparable between inpatient and informal care, because LTC facilities database was no included hospice and palliative care facilities
^bPercentage of observations for which the value of the variable used in the explanatory analysis equals 1 (satisfies the condition)
^cMean value of variable used in explanatory analysis
Source: Authors’ own analysis based on the SHARE Wave 8 and data collected in 2021/2022 database of residents of LTC facilities

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