Table 4.
Variables | Univariate analyses | Multivariate analyses | ||||||||
B | P value | SE | 95% CI | B | P value | SE | 95% CI | |||
Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | |||||||
Age of PWDs | 0.48 | 0.008 | 0.18 | 0.126 | 0.835 | 0.11 | 0.19 | |||
Gender of PWDs | 0.41 | 0.90 | 3.26 | −6.06 | 6.87 | |||||
Education level of PWDs | ||||||||||
Primary school | −10.43 | 0.25 | 9.00 | −28.28 | 7.42 | |||||
Middle school | −1.79 | 0.82 | 8.01 | −17.67 | 14.09 | |||||
High school or above | −4.60 | 0.49 | 6.63 | −17.74 | 8.54 | |||||
Type of dementia | ||||||||||
FTD | −3.65 | 0.48 | 5.11 | −13.78 | 6.49 | |||||
MD | 2.624 | 0.56 | 4.96 | −6.29 | 11.54 | |||||
DLB | −1.65 | 0.77 | 5.55 | −12.65 | 9.35 | |||||
VD | 6.74 | 0.13 | 4.43 | −2.05 | 15.54 | |||||
Score of MoCA | −0.80 | 0.003 | 0.10 | −1.33 | −0.27 | −0.84 | <0.001 | 0.22 | −1.29 | −0.40 |
Total score of NPI | 0.30 | 0.005 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.50 | 0.16 | 0.05 | |||
Score of ADL | 0.41 | <0.001 | 0.11 | 0.20 | 0.63 | 0.14 | 0.13 | |||
Score of PSQI | 0.33 | 0.60 | 0.001 | −0.304 | 0.973 | |||||
Age of caregivers | 0.14 | 0.30 | 0.32 | −0.13 | 0.40 | |||||
Education level of caregivers | ||||||||||
Primary school | 14.75 | 0.15 | 10.28 | −5.66 | 35.13 | |||||
Middle school | 5.75 | 0.55 | 9.69 | −13.46 | 24.96 | |||||
High school or above | 7.31 | 0.40 | 8.59 | −9.71 | 24.34 | |||||
Relationship | ||||||||||
Children | 3.71 | 0.27 | 3.31 | −2.85 | 10.26 | |||||
Relatives | −17.71 | 0.07 | 9.74 | −37.02 | 1059 | |||||
Caregiving time for each week | ||||||||||
9–20 | −5.00 | 0.65 | 10.94 | −26.67 | 16.70 | |||||
21–40 | −0.93 | 0.93 | 9.74 | −20.24 | 18.39 | |||||
>40 | 6.89 | 0.48 | 9.80 | −12.54 | 26.31 | |||||
Caregiving years | ||||||||||
0.5 | −17.00 | 0.36 | 18.28 | −53.45 | 19.45 | |||||
0.5–1 | −15.78 | 0.32 | 15.82 | −47.15 | 15.59 | |||||
1–4 | −12.44 | 0.41 | 15.09 | −42.37 | 17.49 | |||||
5–9 | 11.86 | 0.46 | 16.04 | −19.95 | 43.67 | |||||
>9 | 16.00 | 0.34 | 16.78 | −17.27 | 49.27 | |||||
PAC | −1.33 | 0.001 | 0.40 | −2.12 | −0.54 | −1.22 | 0.001 | 0.34 | −1.90 | −0.55 |
Coping strategy | −0.25 | 0.38 | 0.28 | −0.80 | 0.31 | |||||
Social support | −3.32 | 0.006 | 1.18 | −5.667 | −0.972 | −3.61 | <0.001 | 0.99 | −5.58 | −1.64 |
Community service utilisation | 3.54 | <0.001 | 0.87 | 1.82 | 5.26 | 3.46 | <0.001 | 0.76 | 1.96 | 4.96 |
AD, Alzheimer’s disease; ADL, activities of daily life; CBI, caregiver burden inventory; DLB, Dementia with Lewy bodies; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; MD, mixed dementia; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment; NPI, neuropsychiatric inventory; PAC, positive aspects of caregivers; PSQI, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; PWD, persons with dementia; VD, vascular dementia.