Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of participants with MCI/early stage Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers (N = 6 dyads).
| Cognitively impaired (N = 6) |
Caregivers (N = 6) |
P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean/N | SE/percent | Mean/N | SE/percent | ||
| Demographic factors | |||||
| Age (mean ± SE in years) | 75.00 | 3.65 | 71.50 | 5.25 | NS |
| Gender | NS | ||||
| Male | 2 | 33.33% | 3 | 50.00% | |
| Female | 4 | 66.67% | 3 | 50.00% | |
| Education | NS | ||||
| At least 4 years of college | 4 | 66.67% | 3 | 50.00% | |
| Less than 4 years of college | 2 | 33.33% | 3 | 50.00% | |
| Married | 6 | 100.00% | 6 | 100.00% | |
| Occupation | NS | ||||
| Retired | 5 | 83.33% | 5 | 83.33% | |
| Homemaker | 1 | 16.67% | 0 | 0.00% | |
| Employed | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 16.67% | |
| Mood, stress, and sleep quality | |||||
| Perceived stress scale | 17.33 | 2.95 | 17.33 | 2.20 | NS |
| Profile of mood states (POMS) | |||||
| Total | 17.50 | 8.37 | 18.17 | 7.60 | NS |
| Tension/anxiety | 4.33 | 2.11 | 6.33 | 1.61 | NS |
| Confusion | 6.67 | 1.28 | 3.17 | 1.78 | NS |
| Depression | 9.50 | 3.08 | 7.83 | 2.56 | NS |
| Anger/hostility | 7.67 | 2.19 | 7.00 | 1.24 | NS |
| Vigor | 17.33 | 2.16 | 16.17 | 1.58 | NS |
| Fatigue | 6.67 | 1.78 | 10.00 | 0.97 | NS |
| Positive-negative affect scale | |||||
| Negative affect | 15.33 | 1.67 | 15.33 | 1.56 | NS |
| Positive affect | 33.50 | 2.53 | 34.00 | 2.57 | NS |
| General sleep disturbance scale (Total) | 19.33 | 3.73 | 49.83 | 7.05 | 0.003 |
| Memory functioning scale (Total) | 230.67 | 6.78 | 304.50 | 13.73 | 0.001 |
| Measures related to sympathetic activation | |||||
| Heart rate (average) | 65.67 | 3.68 | 63.83 | 5.48 | NS |
| Systolic blood pressure (average) | 129.83 | 9.02 | 132.83 | 6.33 | NS |
| Diastolic blood pressure (average) | 72.17 | 5.80 | 78.00 | 3.06 | NS |
NS: P > 0.10.