Table 2.

The relationship between a patient’s characteristics and caregiver burden

	Multivariate Analysis			Univariate Analysis
		95 % CI			95 % CI
	β coefficient	Upper	Lower	β coefficient	Upper	Lower
Frail (FFS ≥ 3)	8.98	2.15	15.82	6.80	0.77	12.83
Age (years)	−0.09	−0.71	0.53	0.04	−0.56	0.65
Gender (female)	−4.86	−11.55	1.83	−1.97	−8.20	4.25
Clinical diagnosis of dementia (yes)	−1.35	−7.72	5.03	−2.15	−8.41	4.11
Katz Index (ADL) score	−0.27	−2.94	2.39	−0.30	−3.00	2.40