Table 1. Sociodemographic and clinical aspects.
| Family caregiver(n=50) | Elder with dementia(n=50) | p-value | Elder with dementia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD (n=34) |
Other dementias (n=16) |
p-value | |||||
| Mean age (y, sd) | 54.7 (±11.1) | 77.1 (±8.1) | 0.021*a | 79.0 (±7.7) | 73.2 (±7.5) | 0.021*a | |
| Mean education (y, sd) | 7.76 (±3.9) | 3.3 (±2.4) | 0.02*a | 3.5 (±2.8) | 2.8 (±1.5) | 0.500a | |
| Women n (%) | 44 (88%) | 25 (50%) | 0.04*b | 16 (47%) | 9 (56%) | 0.544b | |
| MMSE | 10.6 (±8.1) | 12.0 (±7.4) | 7.6 (±6.1) | 0.028*a | |||
| Clock-drawing test | 1.8 (±2.6) | 2.2 (±3.0) | 1.1 (±1.1) | 0.595a | |||
| Animal VF | 4.14 (±3.8) | 4.7 (±4.1) | 2.8 (±3.0) | 0.111a | |||
| RS | 135.6 (±22.5) | ||||||
| QoL-AD | 35.0 (±5.7) | ||||||
| BI | 33.6 (±17.3) | ||||||
| BDI | 12.7 (±11.1) | ||||||
| PDUREL | IR | 3.10 (±1.78) | |||||
| OR | 2.46 (±1.45) | ||||||
| NOR | 4.0 (±1.5) | ||||||
| NPI | 12.2 (±10.2) | 9.8 (±8.9) | 17.3 (±11.3) | 0.022*a | |||
| DAD | 37.4 (±7.9) | 36.8 (±95) | 38.8 (±1.9) | 0.888a | |||
AD: Alzheimer disease; MMSE: Mini-mental state examination; animal VF: category fluency test; RS: Resilience Scale; QoL-AD: Quality of life-Alzheimer's Disease scale - caregivers' version; BI: Zarit Burden Interview; BDI: Beck Depression Inventory; PDUREL: Duke University Religion Index-Portuguese version; IR: Intrinsic Religiosity; OR: Organizational Religiosity; NOR: Non-organizational Religiosity; NPI: Neuropsychiatric Inventory; DAD: Disability Assessment for Dementia.
a
Mann-Whitney test;
b
Chi-square;
*
p<0.05.