Table 3. Spearman’s correlation between people with dementia self-rated QoL and study variables.

	Baseline (n=69)		Follow-up (n=55)
	ρ	p-value	ρ	p-value
PwD
Age	0.090	0.461	0.193	0.158
Educational level	-0.083	0.500	-0.015	0.916
Disease duration	0.235	0.051	0.175	0.201
Gender	0.006	0.964	0.116	0.399
Caregiver
Age	- 0.292	0.114	0.067	0.626
Educational level	-0.042	0.732	0.137	0.319
Gender	0.017	0.890	-0.133	0.331
MMSE	0.127	0.298	-0.115	0.403
CSDD	-0.285	0.018 *	-0.408	0.002 †
PFAQ	-0.029	0.812	- 0.074	0.593
ZBI	0.008	0.949	0.047	0.731
NPI	-0.081	0.019 *	-0.068	0.623
QoL-AD caregivers	0.483	0.001 ‡	0.520	0.001 ‡
ASPIDD	0.102	0.404	0.160	0.243

Significant correlations appear in bold.

ASPIDD = Assessment Scale of Psychosocial Impact of the Diagnosis of Dementia; CSDD = Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia; MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination; PFAQ = Pfeffer Functional Activities Questionnaire; PwD = people with dementia; QoL-AD = Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease; ZBI = Zarit Burden Interview.

^*p ≤ 0.05

^†p ≤ 0.01

^‡p ≤ 0.001.