Clinical Study
The Interactive Relationship between Pain, Psychosis, and Agitation in People with Dementia: Results from a Cluster-Randomised Clinical Trial
Table 1
Sample characteristics of patients at baseline.
| | | Control () | Intervention () | df | |
| | Age (SD) |
86.5 (6.7) | 84.9 (7.0) | 350 |
0.022 | | Women (%) | 131 (74.0) | 131 (74.9) | 1 | 0.856 | | FAST (SD) | 6.0 (0.7) | 6.1 (0.7) | 349 | 0.057 | | MMSE (SD) | 8.4 (6.7) | 7.5 (6.5) | 346 | 0.177 | | Barthels ADL total score (SD) | 8.6 (5.6) | 7.9 (5.7) | 339 | 0.216 | | CMAI total score (SD) | 56.2 (16.1) | 56.5 (15.2) | 349 | 0.487 | | MOBID-2 (SD) | 3.7 (2.5) | 3.8 (2.7) | 325 | 0.988 | | Medications (SD) | 3.6 (1.6) | 3.4 (2.1) | 318 | 0.146 | | Analgesics (%) | 122 (68.9) | 117 (66.9) | 1 | 0.404 | | Paracetamol (%) | 94 (53.1) | 99 (56.6) | 1 | 0.665 | | Opioids (%) | 51 (28.8) | 43 (24.6) | 1 | 0.292 | | NSAIDS (%) | 9 (5.1) | 13 (7.4) | 1 | 0.364 | | Psycholeptics (%) | 112 (63.3) | 104 (59.4) | 1 | 0.458 | | Antipsychotics (%) | 13 (7.3) | 17 (9.7) | 1 | 0.465 | | Anxiolytics (%) | 86 (48.6) | 80 (45.7) | 1 | 0.589 | | Psychosis symptoms (%) | 71 (20.2) | 83 (23.6) | 1 | 0.209 | | Delusion (%) | 49 (27.7) | 66 (37.7) | 1 | 0.056 | | Hallucination (%) | 29 (16.4) | 32 (18.3) | 1 | 0.690 | | Euphoria (%) | 15 (8.5) | 16 (9.1) | 1 | 0.864 | | Agitation symptoms (%) | 128 (36.4) | 137 (38.9) | 1 | 0.285 | | Agitation/aggression (%) | 74 (41.8) | 85 (48.6) | 1 | 0.253 | | Disinhibition (%) | 56 (31.6) | 59 (33.7) | 1 | 0.760 | | Irritability (%) | 84 (47.5) | 85 (48.6) | 1 | 0.956 | | Aberrant motor behaviour (%) | 57 (32.2) | 65 (37.1) | 1 | 0.388 |
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Independent-samples -test.
Pearson’s Chi-squared test.
Mann-Whitney test.
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