Time in Care for Older People Living in Nursing Homes

Table 4

Level of care needs and time spent fulfilling them in mean minutes per day in each unit during periods 1 and 2.

Unit/period	Needs Level	Number of recipients	Mean time (minutes)	Range	Median	Standard devation	Difference in time between needs levels
	1	3	11	4–19	9	8	Kruskal-Wallis
	2	16	44	2–141	17	48	𝑋^2 =21, d.f. =4
1/1	3	14	52	8–119	48	39	𝑃<.0003
	4	20	78	16–213	81	47
	5	26	112	10–253	100	70
	1	3	18	5–40	10	19	Kruskal-Wallis
	2	16	40	3–106	41	27	𝑋^2 =23. d.f. =4
1/2	3	14	49	10– 97	46	29	𝑃≤.0001
	4	20	74	12–173	72	40
	5	26	96	13–204	90	52
	1	6	26	8–72	14	25	Kruskal-Wallis
	2	16	46	7–110	35	33	𝑋^2 =32. d.f. =4
2/1	3	14	62	15–154	56	35	𝑃≤.0001
	4	15	80	39–128	72	31
	5	29	148	19–378^∗	129	84
	1	6	16	4–50	8	18	Kruskal-Wallis
	2	16	34	2–112	28	33	𝑋^2 =40. d.f. =4
2/2	3	14	43	10–130	32	37	𝑃≤,.0001
	4	15	63	7–144	51	39
	5	29	105	34–291	90	70

Note: ^∗Thehigh number of minutes is due to the fact that at the time of measurement two care recipients required significant amounts of care.