Patient- and Caregiver-Related Factors Associated with Caregiver Assessed Global Deterioration Scale Scoring in Demented Patients

Table 1

Demographic, clinical, and psychometric characteristics for the samples of patients with caregivers.

Variables	Patients		Caregivers
	Mean ± SD	Min-Max	Mean ± SD	Min-Max
Age (yrs)	79.06 ± 7.16	56-97	59.40 ± 12.96	24-87
Gender (M / F)	65 / 129	-	60 / 134	-
Education (yrs)	7.57 ± 4.02	0-16	11.58 ± 3.82	2-20
Dementia type (AD / non-AD)	131 / 63	-	-	-
MMSE	11.07 ± 6.64	0-23	-	-
NPI	33.06 ± 19.02	0-88	-	-
K-IADL	3.50 ± 2.00	0-6	-	-
GDS	5.23 ± 0.99	3-7	-	-
CES-D	-	-	19.64 ± 10.05	1-51
ZBI	-	-	43.42 ± 46.42	8-74
Weekly caregiving (hrs)	-	-	101.08 ± 69.70	0-168
Professional caregiver (Y / N)	-	-	54 / 140	-
Caregiver being a spouse (Y / N)	-	-	77 / 117	-
Caregiver living with the patient (Y / N)	-	-	124 / 70	-

Note. AD = Alzheimer’s dementia; MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination; NPI = Neuropsychiatric Inventory; K-IADL = Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living; GDS = Global Deterioration Scale; CES-D = Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression; ZBI = Zarit Burden Inventory; M / F = male / female; Y / N = yes / no; Yrs = years; hrs = hours.