Table 1.
Background characteristics of nursing home residents in both the experimental and control groups who completed the semistructured interviews after the 4-week intervention.
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| Sex: female, n (%) | 24 (83) | 22 (76) | 0.1b (1) | —c | — | — | .75 | ||||||||||||||
| Age (y), mean (SD; range) | 84.03 (7.36; 68-96) | 84.38 (7.48; 62-96) | — | −0.177 (56) | — | — | .86 | ||||||||||||||
| Education, n (%) | — | — | 308.0 | −1.502 | .13 | ||||||||||||||||
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Elementary | 7 (24) | 6 (21) |
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Lower secondary education | 19 (66) | 11 (38) |
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Higher secondary education | 1 (3) | 5 (17) |
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University | 2 (7) | 5 (17) |
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| Time spent in nursing home (y), mean (SD; range) | 1.714 (1.460; 0.3-7.0) | 2.038 (2.090; 0.2-10.0) | — | — | 365.5 | −0.427 | .68 | ||||||||||||||
| Type of dementia, n (%) | 1.1b (1) | — | — | — | .30 | ||||||||||||||||
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Alzheimer disease | 17 (59) | 21 (72) |
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Other | 12 (41) | 7 (24) |
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Missing | 0 (0) | 1 (3) |
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| Severity of dementia (GDSd scores), n (%) | — | — | 398.5 | −0.380 | .70 | ||||||||||||||||
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5 | 15 (52) | 15 (52) |
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6 | 10 (34) | 11 (38) |
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aSignificance level set at P<.05.
bChi-square test with Yates continuity correction.
cNot applicable.
dGDS: Global Deterioration Scale.