What contributes to a good quality of life in early dementia? awareness and the QoL-AD: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Bivariate correlation between QoL-AD and other variables in six domains

Domain	QoL-AD (self-report)	Domain	QoL-AD (self-report)
Person with dementia background		Person with dementia psychosocial (self-ratings)
Age	0.16	HADS anxiety	-0.45**
MMSE score	0.02	HADS depression	-0.61**
Years of education	-0.03	NEO-FFI conscientiousness	0.29**
Socio-economic status	-0.08	TSCS self-concept	0.52**
		Quality of relationship	0.50**
Person with dementia neuropsychological		Awareness indices
NART errors	-0.10	MFD	0.21*
WMS-III Word List total recall	0.16	FAD	0.22*
RBMT Total score	-0.21*	SFD	0.11
GNT raw score	-0.04	MPR	0.16
Pyramids & Palm Trees raw	0.15	Global Interview Rating	0.06
D-KEFS letter fluency total	0.16
D-KEFS category fluency total	0.22*
Caregiver ratings of person with dementia		Caregiver background and self-ratings
NPI-Q symptom score	-0.30**	Age	0.02
NPI-Q severity score	-0.33**	Socio-economic status	-0.11
NEO-FFI conscientiousness	-0.09	NPI-Q distress score	-0.33**
TSCS self-concept	0.40**	GHQ-12	-0.11
		Relatives Stress Scale	-0.24*
		Quality of relationship with PwD	0.22*

* p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.
Significance levels are given as indicative only, in view of multiple comparisons, and are included to provide a full presentation of the data.
Key to abbreviations: HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, TSCS Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, NEO-FFI NEO Five-Factor Inventory, NART National Adult Reading Test, WMS-III Wechsler Memory Scale, 3 ^rd edition, D-KEFS Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System, NPI-Q Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire, GHQ-12 General Health Questionnaire.

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