Table 3.

Effect of Daily Context on the Odds of Abusive or Neglectful Behavior. BSD = behavioral symptoms of dementia

Daily contextual factors	Abusive behaviora			Neglectful behavior
	OR	95% CI	p	OR	95% CI	p
Person-centered BSD-stress	1.92	[1.56–2.37]	.001	1.42	[1.14–1.77]	.001
Disruption in routine
Once a day	2.35	[1.31–4.22]	.001	1.69	[0.87–3.28]
Twice a day	1.43	[0.44–4.65]		5.14	[1.51–17.47]	.01
Meaningful activity
Once a day	0.81	[0.43–1.55]		0.88	[0.42–1.86]
Twice a day	0.72	[0.30–1.73]		0.19	[0.06–0.64]	.01
Instrumental support
Once a day	1.85	[0.71–4.84]		1.66	[0.59–4.67]
Twice a day	0.77	[0.34–1.74]		1.05	[0.44–2.50]
Engaging in self-care
Once a day	0.70	[0.31–1.60]		1.26	[0.59–2.69]
Twice a day	0.70	[0.31–1.60]		2.20	[0.85–5.69]
Together all day	0.72	[0.35–1.47]		1.74	[0.70–4.34]

^aWe compared a model with all six items for abusive behavior outcome to a model that excluded “stomping out of the room” from the outcome, which revealed no statistical or practically meaningful differences.