Table 3.

Patient and care characteristics associated with involvement of psychological and spiritual caregivers in the last month of life

Psychological and spiritual caregiver involvement
		% (column)	% (row)	Univariate logistic regression OR (95 % CI)	Multivariate logistic regression OR (95 % CI)
Overall	5062		16.3
Age
0–64	1312	16.0	13.0	0.73 (0.58–0.91)	1.16 (0.89–1.51)
64–79	1663	30.2	16.7	0.98 (0.83–1.15)	1.32 (1.09–1.59)
>80 (ref)	2087	53.8	17.0	1	1
Sex
Female	2518	53.5	19.0	1.53 (1.32–1.78)	1.31 (1.11–1.54)
Male (ref)	2544	46.5	13.2	1	1
Cause of death
Cardiovascular disease	543	16.5	12.5	0.63 (0.50–0.79)	1.01 (0.79–1.29)
Cancer	2925	37.2	15.4	0.80 (0.69–0.94)	1.16 (0.93–1.44)
Other or unknown (ref)	1594	46.3	18.4	1	1
Dementia
Yes	4104	23.0	26.9	2.35 (2.02–2.75)	1.08 (0.87–1.34)
No (ref)	739	77.0	13.5	1	1
Place of death
Home and residential home	2663	42.8	10.1	1.17 (0.93–1.45)	0.78 (0.60–1.01)
Nursing home	1122	28.5	33.0	5.10 (4.15–6.26)	3.67 (2.83–4.75)
Hospital (ref)	1277	28.7	8.8	1	1
Hospitalization in the last month of life?
Yes	1815	35.5	13.6	0.71 (0.61–0.83)	1.09 (0.91–1.32)
No (ref)	3027	64.5	18.1	1	1
Was care prior to death aimed at palliation?
Yes, during the last weeks/months of life	2626	47.9	22.8	2.82 (1.22–1.97)	2.19 (1.73–2.76)
Yes, during the last days of life	892	21.4	13.9	1.55 (1.22–1.97)	1.26 (0.98–1.63)
No, or only in the last hours of life	1136	30.7	9.5	1	1

All percentages are weighted for sampling fractions, non-response and random sampling deviations, to make them representative for all deaths in the year studied

ref reference category, OR (95 % CI) odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals