Table 1.

Characteristics of the residents and family caregivers enrolled in the study.

	Pre-intervention phase				Intervention phase
	Generic feedback strategy (N = 149)	Patient-specific feedback strategy (N = 138)	No feedback (control condition) (N = 117)	p	Generic feedback strategy (N = 123)	Patient-specific feedback strategy (N = 71)	No feedback (control condition) (N = 113)	p
Residents
Length of stay in months, mean (SD)	34.0 (35.5)	30.3 (36.7)	35.6 (38.1)	0.53	28.2 (34.0)	33.2 (30.5)	33.2 (28.4)	0.36
Female (%)	66.4	71.0	70.1	0.68	69.9	74.7	65.4	0.33
Age at death, mean (SD)	85.6 (6.5)	85.5 (7.7)	84.3 (8.6)	0.29	86.6 (6.0)	86.6 (5.5)	84.3 (9.4)	0.02*
Food/drink intake (%)				0.80				0.43
Independent	17.7	13.5	13.8		18.2	15.6	17.3
Supervision	8.8	8.3	12.9		12.4	4.4	10.5
Limited assistance	21.8	22.6	23.3		23.1	21.1	21.8
Extensive assistance	21.1	25.6	19.8		17.4	21.1	24.1
Total dependence (=CPS 6)a	30.6	30.1	29.3		28.9	37.8	25.6
Did not occur	–	–	0.9		–	–	0.8
Family caregivers
Female (%)	62.4	58.7	60.7	0.81	69.9	62.2	64.7	0.47
Age, mean (SD)	63.2 (12.2)	62.1 (11.0)	63.3 (11.7)	0.67	63.2 (10.6)	61.0 (12.0)	62.3 (12.0)	0.37
Level of education (%)				0.05*				0.72
Primary education/no schooling	12.6	6.9	6.1		8.4	4.6	7.9
High school, technical, or trade school	61.5	59.5	52.6		55.5	55.2	59.1
Higher education	25.9	33.6	41.2		36.1	40.2	33.1
Relation to patient (%)				0.89				0.43
Child	60.4	63.0	60.7		65.9	66.7	64.7
Spouse	24.2	20.3	20.5		18.7	11.1	18.8
Other	15.4	16.7	18.8		15.4	22.2	16.5

SD: standard deviation; CPS: Cognitive Performance Scale.

^aTotal dependence in eating represents the highest level of the CPS (score 6).

^*p < 0.05.