Patient- and Caregiver-Related Factors Associated with Caregiver Assessed Global Deterioration Scale Scoring in Demented Patients
Table 2
Summary of hierarchical regression analysis to identify the contribution of patients’ and caregivers’ characteristics on GDS scoring.
Variables
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Demographic characteristics
Patient’s Age
-0.084
-0.005
-0.007
Patient’s Gender
0.138
0.115
0.120
Patient’s Education
0.007
0.019
0.027
Caregiver’s Age
-0.115
-0.043
-0.033
Caregiver’s Gender
0.086
0.080
0.078
Caregiver’s Education
-0.104
-0.076
-0.086
Caregiver being a spouse
-0.125
-0.078
-0.056
Patients’ disease and clinical/psychometric features
Diagnosis of AD
-0.055
-0.064
MMSE
-0.528
-0.524
NPI
-0.041
-0.108
K-IADL
-0.310
-0.264
Caregivers’ psychometric features and caregiving characteristics
CES-D
0.013
ZBI
0.145
Weekly hours of caring
-0.059
Caregiver living with the patient
0.083
Presence of professional caregiver
-0.108
F-model
1.133
21.149
15.742
R2
0.041
0.561
0.587
Adjusted R2
0.005
0.535
0.550
R2
0.041
0.520
0.026
F
1.133
53.920
2.249
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. β corresponds to standardized beta coefficients. Bold adjusted correspond to models significantly explaining the variance of the dependent variable (i.e., GDS scoring). p < 0.05; p < 0.01; p < 0.001.
