Table 1.
Caregiver demographics and their association with dementia-specific information searching (N=580).
| Characteristic | Respondents, n (%) | Dementia-specific information search | |||||||||
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Frequently, n (%) | Occasionally, n (%) | Never, n (%) | P value | |||||
| Gender |
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<.001 | ||||||
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Women | 430 (74.1) | 244 (56.7) | 166 (38.6) | 20 (4.7) |
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Men | 150 (25.9) | 55 (36.7) | 84 (56.0) | 11 (7.3) |
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| Age (years) |
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.03 | ||||||
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<65 | 483 (83.3) | 254 (52.6) | 209 (43.3) | 20 (4.1) |
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66-85 | 93 (16 .0) | 44 (47) | 38 (41) | 11 (12) |
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>86 | 4 (0.7) | 1 (25) | 3 (75) | 0 (0) |
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| Education |
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.02 | ||||||
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<12 years of secondary education | 237 (40.9) | 123 (51.9) | 94 (39.7) | 20 (8.4) |
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Tertiary education | 343 (59.1) | 176 (51.3) | 156 (45.5) | 11 (3.2) |
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| Occupation |
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.007 | ||||||
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Unemployed/student/homemaker | 140 (24.1) | 83 (59.3) | 48 (34.3) | 9 (6.4) |
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Employed | 299 (51.6) | 141 (47.2) | 148 (49.5) | 10 (3.3) |
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Pensioner | 141 (24.3) | 75 (53.2) | 54 (38.3) | 12 (8.5) |
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| Financial statusa |
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.48 | ||||||
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Living comfortably | 137 (23.6) | 65 (94.9) | 65 (47.4) | 7 (5.1) |
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Living with no major difficulties | 174 (30) | 85 (48.9) | 82 (47.1) | 7 (4.0) |
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Living with difficulty/borrow money | 259 (44.7) | 144 (55.6) | 99 (38.2) | 16 (6.2) |
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| Family status |
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.85 | ||||||
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Married/cohabitation | 379 (65.4) | 201 (53.0) | 157 (41.4) | 21 (5.5) |
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Single/divorced | 186 (32.1) | 91 (48.9) | 86 (46.2) | 9 (4.8) |
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Widowed | 15 (2.6) | 7 (47) | 7 (47) | 1 (7) |
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| Caregiver relationship to patient |
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.19 | ||||||
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Child | 389 (67.1) | 202 (51.9) | 171 (44) | 16 (4.1) |
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Spouse | 112 (19.3) | 62 (55.4) | 41 (36.6) | 9 (29) |
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Other | 79 (13.6) | 35 (44) | 38 (48) | 6 (8) |
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| Type of caregiver |
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.02 | ||||||
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Primary caregiver or sharing equally | 396 (68.3) | 215 (54.3) | 156 (39.4) | 25 (6.3) |
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Secondary caregiver | 184 (31.7) | 84 (45.7) | 94 (51.1) | 6 (3.3) |
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| Hours of care per weekb |
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<.001 | ||||||
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<20 | 301 (51.9) | 136 (45.2) | 154 (51.2) | 11 (3.7) |
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>20 | 279 (48.1) | 163 (58.4) | 96 (34.4) | 20 (7.2) |
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| Period of caregiving (years) |
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.005 | ||||||
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<5 | 389 (67.1) | 183 (47.0) | 181 (46.5) | 25 (6.4) |
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>5 | 191 (32.9) | 116 (60.7) | 69 (36.1) | 6 (3.1) |
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aTen caregivers did not provide responses related to financial status.
bMean 38.59, SD 45.92 (median 20).