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Table 4.

Comparison of responders and non-responders in the IG for the response criteria “cognition,” “ADL,” and “BPSD.”

			p for group differences between responders and non-responders
			Cognition (MMSE)	ADL (ETAM)	BPSD (NPI-Q)
PWD variables at baseline	Age (in years)		0.882^a	0.409^a	0.586^a
	Sex (female)		>0.999^b	>0.999^b	0.541^b
	Education (years of school attendance)	<8 years 8–9 years 9–10 years 12–13 years University	0.280^b	0.359^b	0.872^b
	Dementia symptoms	Cognition (MMSE)	0.190^a	0.864^a	0.427^a
		ADL (ETAM)	0.004 ^a	<0.001 ^a	0.353^a
		BPSD (NPI-Q)	0.636^a	0.087^a	0.005 ^a
	Medical variables	Charlson Comorbidity Index	0.371^a	0.836^a	0.641^a
		Anti-dementia drugs¹ (yes)	0.761^b	0.757^b	0.517^b
		Care level	0.639^a	0.270^a	0.845^a
		Depression (NPI-Q)	0.949^a	0.551^a	0.675^a
		CNS depressant score	0.342^a	0.202^a	0.696^a
		Orthopedic diseases	0.539^b	>0.999^b	0.508^b
		Neurological diseases	0.734^b	0.608^b	>0.999^b
Caregiver variables at baseline	Age (in years)		0.523^a	0.457^a	0.233^a
	Sex (female)		0.637^b	0.263^b	0.737^b
	Education (years of school attendance)	<8 years 8–9 years 9–10 years 12–13 years University	0.021 ^b	0.719^b	0.905^b
	Burden (BSFC-s)		0.205^a	0.635^a	0.085^a
	Benefits (BIZA-D)		0.767^a	0.845^a	0.209^a
	Degree of kinship to the PWD		0.931^b	0.871^b	0.380^b
	Living in the same house with the PWD		0.962^b	0.190^b	0.308^b

^aMann-Whitney U-test; ^bChi², Fisher’s exact test; ¹CEIs or memantine.

ADL, Activities of daily living; BIZA-D, The Berlin inventory of caregivers’ burden with dementia patients (Berliner Inventar zur Angehörigenbelastung – Demenz); BSFC-s, Burden Scale for Family Caregivers – short version, CNS, central vervous system; ETAM, Erlangen test of activities of daily living in persons with mild dementia or mild cognitive impairment; MMSE, Mini-mental state examination; NPI-Q, Neuropsychiatric inventory questionnaire.