Table 3. Correlation among scores on the QoL-AD, RS, IR (DUREL-P), BDI and BI of the family caregiver and age, education, cognitive, NPI and DAD scores of the elder with dementia.
QoL-AD | RS | IR | BDI | BI | ||||||
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Correlation | p | Correlation | p | Correlation | p | Correlation | p | Correlation | p | |
Age | 0.138 | 0.336 | 0.021 | 0.881 | 0.111 | 0.439 | -0.101 | 0.482 | -0.135 | 0.347 |
Education | 0.090 | 0.532 | 0.076 | 0.599 | -0.114 | 0.427 | 0.102 | 0.477 | 0.219 | 0.126 |
MMSE | 0.159 | 0.269 | -0.197 | 0.169 | 0.072 | 0.616 | 0.247 | 0.082 | 0.166 | 0.248 |
Animal VF | -0.154 | 0.283 | -0.267 | 0.060 | -0.019 | 0.894 | 0.229 | 0.108 | 0.074 | 0.608 |
Clock-drawing test | -0.280 | 0.048* | -0.225 | 0.114 | 0.170 | 0.235 | 0.221 | 0.121 | 0.162 | 0.259 |
NPI | 0.038 | 0.791 | -0.013 | 0.925 | -0.071 | 0.622 | 0.291 | 0.040* | 0.200 | 0.161 |
DAD | 0.136 | 0.344 | 0.199 | 0.164 | -0.168 | 0.242 | -0.158 | 0.270 | -0.245 | 0.085 |
QoL-AD: Quality of life in Alzheimer's Disease scale - caregivers' version; RS: Resilience Scale; IR: Intrinsic Religiosity (DUREL-P); BDI: Beck Depression Inventory; BI: Zarit Burden Interview; MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination; Animal VF: category fluency test; NPI: Neuropsychiatric Inventory; DAD: Disability Assessment for Dementia. Spearman's correlation;
p<0.05.