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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007 Dec 27;56(3):413–420. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01569.x

Table 2.

Intervention and Control Care Recipient Baseline Characteristics

Characteristic* Control
(n = 46)		 Intervention
(n = 46)		 P-Value*
Female, % 45.7 69.6 .03
Cognitive enhancer, % yes 41.3 54.3 .30
Age, mean ± SD 78.5 ± 10.3 78.5 ± 9.6 .98
Mini-Mental State Examination score (range 0–30), mean ± SD 12.0 ± 8.1 15.4 ± 7.4 .04
Number of activities of daily living care recipient had trouble with (range 0–6), mean ± SD 3.5 ± 2.1 3.0 ± 1.9 .24
Number of instrumental activities of daily living care recipient had trouble with (range 0–8), mean ± SD 7.0 ± 1.1 6.6 ± 1.7 .20
Revised Memory and Behavior Problem Checklist behavior score (range 0–72), mean ± SD 24.6 ± 10.3 22.0 ± 8.6 .19
Physician visits per month, mean ± SD 2.7 ± 2.0 2.7 ± 2.4 .95
Emergency department visits per month, mean ± SD 1.0 ± 0.0 1.3 ± 0.5 .44
Home care visits per month, mean ± SD 3.6 ± 4.0 2.9 ± 2.3 .63
Day care days per month, mean ± SD 11.4 ± 8.2 10.9 ± 2.3 .89
*

Chi-squared or t-test for independent samples, as appropriate.

SD = standard deviation.