Table 1.
Socio-demographics, locus of control and domains of symptoms among participants in Good Aging in Skåne study (GÅS) divided by diagnostic group, N = 343
| Care recipients in GÅS study | Diagnostic groups | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dementia | Heart/lung | Stroke | Fracture | Depression | Other | |
| Socio-demographics, n (%) | 90 (26) | 48 (14) | 62 (18) | 66 (19) | 40 (12) | 37 (11) |
| Female | 53 (59) | 30 (62) | 38 (61) | 54 (82) | 29 (73) | 21 (57) |
| Age, n (%) | ||||||
| 60–69 years | 0 (0) | 8 (17) | 4 (6) | 6 (9) | 6 (15) | 5 (13) |
| 70–79 years | 11 (12) | 5 (10) | 9 (15) | 4 (6) | 4 (10) | 4 (11) |
| > 80 years | 79 (88) | 35 (73) | 49 (79) | 56 (85) | 30 (75) | 28 (76) |
| Age, md (q1–q3) | 86 (81–90) | 86 (78–92) | 86 (81–90) | 88 (84–92) | 84 (79–88) | 87 (78– |
| Living alone, n (%) | 44 (51) | 22 (46) | 33 (53) | 42 (64) | 20 (50) | 90) 21 (57) |
| Urban resident, n (%) | 73 (81) | 39 (81) | 48 (77) | 50 (76) | 30 (75) | 33 (90) |
| Education, n (%) | ||||||
| Elementary school or less | 63 (73) | 35 (73) | 45 (73) | 40 (61) | 24 (63) | 24 (65) |
| Secondary school | 15 (18) | 12 (25) | 10 (16) | 17 (26) | 13 (34) | 8 (22) |
| > 1 year above secondary school | 8 (9) | 1 (2) | 7 (11) | 9 (13) | 1 (3) | 5 (13) |
| Locus of controla, mn (sd) | ||||||
| Internal | 18.2 (4.2) | 17.8 (4.8) | 17.5 (4.0) | 18.0 (4.5) | 17.7 (3.4) | 16.6 (4.2) |
| Chance | 17.3 (4.9) | 17.6 (5.5) | 16.4 (4.3) | 16.4 (5.0) | 17.1 (4.2) | 15.9 (4.9) |
| External | 15.1 (4.4) | 14.4 (4.6) | 14.6 (4.4) | 13.7 (4.3) | 13.1 (4.3) | 13.8 (3.7) |
| Domains of symptoms, n (%) | ||||||
| Depressive | 78 (93) | 42 (93) | 50 (93) | 62 (97) | 35 (92) | 32 (94) |
| Tension | 70 (83) | 38 (84) | 45 (82) | 54 (84) | 35 (92) | 30 (88) |
| Gastrointestinal/urinary | 68 (81) | 37 (82) | 44 (81) | 58 (91) | 31 (82) | 25 (73) |
| Musculoskeletal | 72 (86) | 37 (82) | 50 (91) | 52 (81) | 31 (82) | 31 (91) |
| Metabolic | 64 (76) | 35 (78) | 41 (76) | 49 (77) | 31 (82) | 25 (73) |
| Cardio-pulmonary | 61 (73) | 32 (71) | 37 (68) | 38 (60) | 25 (66) | 23 (68) |
| Related to head | 77 (93) | 40 (91) | 47 (85) | 57 (89) | 36 (95) | 30 (88) |
| Memory impairment | 67 (80) | 41 (91) | 44 (81) | 52 (81) | 28 (74) | 31 (91) |
aLocus of control; n = 323