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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adv Nurs. 2023 Oct 12;80(3):1111–1119. doi: 10.1111/jan.15898

Table 2.

Characteristics of the participants

Variables Descriptive statistics



Total (n = 866) Nursing home (n = 341) Community-dwelling (n = 525)




Gender %(n)




Male 35.5(307) 30.5(104) 36.4(191)



Female 64.5(559) 69.5(237) 63.6(334)




Age
(Y; M±SD)
76.47±1.15 79.01 ± 9.04 74.86 ± 9.48




No. of CD %(n)




None 14.8(128) 14.4(49) 14.7(77)




One 52.3(453) 47.2(161) 57.9(304)




Two to three 31.5(273) 36.7(125) 26.7(140)




Four or more 1.4(12) 1.7(6) 0.7(4)