Table 2.
Relationship between caregiver burden and the presence of neuropsychiatric symptoms and subsyndromes
| Neuropsychiatric symptoms | Burden (ZBI ≥ 10 points) |
No burden (ZBI < 10 points) |
p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % (95% CI) | n | % (95% CI) | ||
| Disinhibition* | 43 | 93.5 (82.1;98.6) | 3 | 6.5 (1.4;17.9) | 0.001 |
| Irritability/lability* | 55 | 87.3 (76.5;94.4) | 8 | 12.7 (5.6;23.5) | 0.006 |
| Agitation/aggression* | 62 | 86.1 (75.9;93.1) | 10 | 13.9 (6.9;24.1) | 0.005 |
| Aberrant motor behavior | 35 | 87.5 (73.2;95.8) | 5 | 12.5 (4.2;26.8) | 0.053 |
| Elation/euphoria | 18 | 81.8 (59.7;94.8) | 4 | 18.2 (5.2;40.3) | 0.536 |
| Apathy/indifference | 70 | 77.8 (67.8;85.9) | 20 | 22.2 (14.1;32.2) | 0.673 |
| Appetite/eating behavior | 32 | 82.1 (66.5;92.5) | 7 | 17.9 (7.5;33.4) | 0.348 |
| Delusions | 40 | 76.9 (63.2;87.5) | 12 | 23.1 (12.5;36.8) | 0.968 |
| Hallucinations | 38 | 77.6 (63.4;88.2) | 11 | 22.4 (11.8;36.6) | 0.968 |
| Sleep behavior | 47 | 75.8 (63.3;85.8) | 15 | 24.2 (14.2;36.7) | 0.808 |
| Depression/dysphoria | 46 | 75.4 (62.7;85.5) | 15 | 24.6 (14.5;37.3) | 0.734 |
| Anxiety | 47 | 83.9 (71.7;92.4) | 9 | 16.1 (7.6;28.3) | 0.091 |
| Neuropsychiatric subsyndromes | |||||
| Hyperactivity * | 92 | 82.9 (74.6;89.4) | 19 | 17.1 (10.6;25.4) | 0.000 |
| Apathy | 79 | 79.0 (69.7;86.5) | 21 | 21.0 (13.5;30.3) | 0.260 |
| Psychosis | 68 | 79.1 (68.9;87.1) | 18 | 20.9 (12.9;31.0) | 0.377 |
| Affective | 66 | 78.6 (68.3;86.8) | 18 | 21.4 (13.2;31.7) | 0.502 |
* statistically significant