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. 2012 Aug 16;53(2):293–302. doi: 10.1093/geront/gns078

Table 3.

Factors Associated With Caregiver Reports of IWDs’ Values and Preferences in Daily Care Over Time

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
B SE B SE B SE
Fixed effects
Intercept (initial status), γ00 89.47*** 0.89 89.29*** 0.89 81.11*** 5.19
Time (change over months), γ10 −0.23*** 0.04 −0.22*** 0.04 −0.22*** 0.04
QoL_resid (within-person), γ20 2.70 2.05 4.04* 1.98
Predictors of the intercept
QoL_mean (between-person) 3.38 1.79
Spouse −3.40* 1.54
Baseline decision-making involvement of IWDs 7.54*** 1.04
Baseline best interests 10.00** 3.73
Baseline IWD self report of Importance of Values and Preferences 0.22** 0.08
Random effects
Variance intercept, 93.66*** 16.57 92.18*** 16.47 41.38*** 11.75
Variance in change over time, 0.05** 0.02 0.06** 0.02 0.06** 0.02
Covariance intercept, change over 
time, 1.18** 0.45 1.16** 0.45 1.26*** 0.38
Residual variance, 76.70*** 7.68 74.84*** 7.60 73.10*** 7.38
−2LL 3922.7 3873.4 3700.1
AIC 3930.7 3881.4 3708.1

Notes: N = 198 caregivers. Model based on up to five occasions of measurement nested within 198 participants. AIC = Akaike Information Criterion; IWDs = individuals with dementia; −2LL = −2 log likelihood, relative model fit statistics.

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001. p = .05.