Table 4.

Correlations Between Caregiver and Care Recipient Characteristics and Study Outcomes

Construct	Caregiver Age	Caregiver Sex	Caregiver Education	Caregiver Relationship	Care Recipient Age	Care Recipient Sex	Duration of Disease	CDR-SB
Positive Attributes
Caregiver QoL	0.273 ***	−0.083	0.089	−0.243***	−0.072	−0.068	−0.033	−0.158***
Care Recipient QoL	0.009	0.055	0.115**	−0.120**	−0.084	−0.123**	−0.161***	−0.571***
Social Support	−0.081	0.064	0.047	0.204 ***	0.165 ***	0.119 **	−0.012	−0.015
Perceived Change Index	0.207 ***	−0.029	0.073	−0.100*	0.099	−0.010	−0.021	−0.041
Psychological Well-Being	0.146 ***	−0.064	0.134**	−0.083	0.014	−0.039	0.030	−0.077
Mastery	0.079	−0.101	0.104*	−0.015	−0.053	0.019	−0.057	−0.064
Care Confidence	0.011	−0.021	0.029	−0.006	0.036	0.001	−0.006	−0.098*
Negative Attributes
PHQ-2	−0.171***	0.098	−0.064	0.128 **	−0.017	0.039	0.039	0.025
Grief	−0.095*	0.035	−0.021	−0.071	−0.140**	−0.040	0.030	0.188 ***
Burden	−0.193***	0.088*	0.039	0.123 **	−0.030	0.042	−0.028	0.122 **

Spearman correlation coefficients

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01,

^***p < 0.001.

Boldp-value signifies significance after correction for multiple comparisons (corrected p-value < 0.007 for positive attributes, and corrected p-value < 0.017 for care recipient characteristics) CDR-SB, Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes; QoL, Quality of Life; PHQ-2, Patient Health Questionnaire.