Table 3.

HCP and Resident Characteristics Associated with Greater 15-item Decision Satisfaction Inventory Scores in Adjusted Linear Regression, (N=174)

Characteristic	p-value	Beta coefficient (95%CI)*
Health Care Proxy is not the resident’s child	0.02	7.10 (1.12,13.07)
Resident lives on special care dementia unit	0.002	9.48 (3.52,15.44)
SM-EOLD†	0.004	0.49 (0.16,0.83)

^*Also adjusted for resident length of stay, DNH status, HCP lived with resident, HCP visits resident >7 hrs per week, SF-12 mental subscale, stated goal is comfort care.

^†SM-EOLD—Symptom Management at the End-of-Life in Dementia Scale (possible scores 0–45; higher scores indicate greater comfort)