Table 4. Spearman’s correlation between caregiver ratings of people with dementia QoL and study variables.

	Baseline (n=69)		Follow-up (n=55)
	ρ	p-value	ρ	p-value
PwD
Age	-0.001	0.925	0.105	0.444
Educational level	-0.005	0.868	-0.070	0.610
Disease duration	0.172	0.158	0.015	0.912
Gender	0.006	0.964	0.119	0.389
Caregiver
Age	0.011	0.926	-0.068	0.620
Educational level	0.002	0.990	0.048	0.725
Gender	-0.085	0.489	-0.137	0.318
MMSE	0.116	0.343	-0.115	0.403
CSDD	-0.516	0.001 *	-0.472	0.001 *
PFAQ	-0.229	0.059	-0.242	0.076
ZBI	0.279	0.020 †	0.254	0.062
NPI	-0.516	0.001 *	-0.292	0.031 †
PWD QoL-AD	0.483	0.001 *	0.520	0.001 *
ASPIDD	-0.209	0.084	-0.266	0.050 †

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 ≤ 0.001

^†p ≤ 0.05.