Table 3.

Frequency and Percent of Reasons for Withdrawing from Study (N=10)

Reasons for Attrition	Frequency (%)
Patient discharged from hospice; improved	2 (20)
No response to phone calls; unable to reach for follow-up data collection	2 (20)
Patient did not want to answer any more questions	2 (20)
Caregiver felt overwhelmed with home and hospice responsibilities	1 (10)
Wanted to wait until after holidays to continue (outside of time parameters)	1 (10)
Patient no longer willing to participate; no reason given	1 (10)
Caregiver found to be demented; staff withdrew dyad from study	1 (10)