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Table 1 Characteristics of people with dementia

From: Inter-rater agreement of the Quality of Life-Alzheimer’s Disease (QoL-AD) self-rating and proxy rating scale: secondary analysis of RightTimePlaceCare data

 

Total

n = 1330

ILTC

n = 476 (35.8%)

HC

n = 854 (64.2%)

Age/ years, mean (SD)

83.0 (6.4)

84.4 (6.1)

82.3 (6.4)

Gender, n (%)

 Female

876 (65.9%)

346 (72.7%)

530 (62.1%)

 Male

454 (34.1%)

130 (27.3%)

324 (37.9%)

Marital status, n (%)

 Married

549 (41.3%)

128 (26.9%)

421 (49.3%)

 Widowed

662 (49.8%)

293 (61.7%)

369 (43.2%)

 Divorced

69 (5.2%)

31 (6.5%)

38 (4.4%)

 Other

49 (3.7%)

23 (4.8%)

26 (3.0%)

Length of formal education/ years, mean (SD)

9.1 (3.8)

8.9 (3.6)

9.1 (3.9)

NPI-Q, mean (SD)

7.9 (6.0)

6.3 (5.5)

8.8 (6.1)

S-MMSE, mean (SD)

15.0 (5.7)

13.3 (5.5)

15.9 (5.6)

CSDD, mean (SD)

6.9 (5.5)

5.5 (4.7)

7.7 (5.7)

KATZ ADL, mean (SD)

3.4 (1.8)

2.6 (1.7)

3.8 (1.7)

  1. For some variables, data are not available for all participants (percentages are relative frequencies of the valid values)
  2. Value ranges of measures: see Additional file 1