Table 1.
Characteristics of Eligible Residents Who Refused to Participate, Did not Pass the Trial, and Dropped Out, Through Nine Months Post Facility Randomizationa
| Refused (N=2268) Number (%) or Mean (SD) |
Agreed to Participate (N=797) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Did Not Pass Trial (N=164) Number (%) or Mean (SD) |
Passed Trial (N=633) | |||
| Dropped Out (N=236) Number (%) or Mean (SD) |
Did Not Drop Out (N=397) Number (%) or Mean (SD) |
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| Demographic Characteristics | ||||
| Age (mean, SD) | 85.2 (8.0) | 85.5 (7.1) | 85.9 (7.4) | 85.0 (7.3) |
| Gender, male | 492 (21.7) | 32 (19.5) | 52 (22.0) | 70 (17.6) |
| Race, non-white | 123 (11.6) | 22 (13.4) | 40 (17.0) | 51 (12.9) |
| Ethnicity, Hispanic | 11 (0.8) | 1 (0.6) | 3 (1.3) | 3 (0.8) |
| Marital status, not married | 140 (88.6) | 205 (87.6) | 339 (85.6) | |
| Functional Status | ||||
| No cognitive impairment (≥ 12 on the Blessed Test) | 38 (23.5) | 43 (18.3) | 70 (17.7) | |
| Aggressive behavior scale | 0.6 (1.5) | 0.7 (1.4) | 0.6 (1.3) | |
| Do not wander | 128 (81.0) | 180 (76.6) | 293 (73.8) | |
| No depressive indicators | 96 (60.8) | 138 (58.7) | 228 (57.4) | |
| Continent of bladder | 69 (43.7) | 62 (26.4) | 104 (26.2)*** | |
| Continent of bowel | 98 (62.0) | 113 (48.1) | 174 (43.8)*** | |
| Independently mobile | 66 (41.8) | 60 (25.5) | 120 (30.2)** | |
| No falls in last six months | 96 (61.2) | 113 (48.1) | 180 (45.3)* | |
| Health Status | ||||
| History of hip fracture | 10 (6.4) | 14 (6.0) | 29 (7.3) | |
| Osteoporosis diagnosis | 31 (19.8) | 39 (16.6) | 75 (18.9) | |
| Alzheimer's disease, dementia diagnosis | 89 (56.7) | 158 (67.2) | 274 (69.0)* | |
| Depression diagnosis | 67 (42.4) | 99 (42.1) | 179 (45.1) | |
| Number of medications | 8.8 (4.0) | 8.6 (3.6) | 8.5 (3.9) | |
| Taking medications for osteoporosis | 11 (7.0) | 27 (11.5) | 58 (14.7)* | |
| Body mass index | 25.0 (4.6) | 24.2 (4.4) | 24.8 (4.6) | |
a
Number missing: 4 (cognitive impairment); 7 (ethnicity, wandering, depressive indicators and depression diagnosis, incontinence, mobility); 8 (falls, osteoporosis diagnosis, Alzheimer's diagnosis, taking osteoporosis medications); 9 (marital status, history of hip fracture). Percents are column percents; using gender as an example, 21.7% of those who refused were male; 19.5% of those who did not pass the trial were male, 22.0% of those who dropped out were male, and 17.6% of those who did not drop out were male.
*
p <.05;
**
p < .01;
***
p<0.001 for comparisons across all groups.