Older Primary Care Patients’ Attitudes and Willingness to Screen for Dementia

Table 4

Logistic regression analysis of the odds of refusing to undergo screening for dementia at St. Vincent Health and Community Health Network.

Variable	St. Vincent Health		Community Health Network
	Odds ratio; (95% confidence interval)	P value	Odds ratio^a; (95% confidence interval)	P value
PRISM-PC questionnaire items
High domain score: perception that dementia screening is beneficial	0.80 (0.70, 0.91)	0.001	0.79 (0.63, 0.98)	0.029
High domain score: suffering related to dementia screening	1.07 (0.97, 1.18)	0.200	0.89 (0.73, 1.08)	0.248
Perception that depression screening is beneficial	0.80 (0.62, 1.04)	0.100	0.63 (0.40, 0.99)	0.049
Have a relative or friend with AD	0.51 (0.30, 0.87)	0.014	0.43 (0.16, 1.12)	0.082
Lives alone	1.14 (0.64, 2.02)	0.662	2.18 (0.87, 5.44)	0.096
Education
(>high school+ versus 0–11 years)	0.19 (0.05, 0.82)	0.025	1.38 (0.36, 5.25)	0.640
Age, years		0.648		0.573
65–69 (reference group)	1.00 [reference]		1.00 [reference]
70–74	0.69 (0.32, 1.49)		1.71 (0.42, 6.93)
75–79	1.17 (0.56, 2.45)		1.02 (0.24, 4.74)
≥80	0.90 (0.44, 1.82)		2.01 (0.56, 7.25)

PRISM-PC, Perceptions Regarding Investigational Screening for Memory in Primary Care.
^aOdds ratios report a 5-point difference in the scale score.