Table 6.
Correlates of ‘Positive’ and ‘Negative/neutral’ Interactions in Nursing Homes
| Variables | Positive Interaction | Negative/neutral Interaction | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate (95% CI) | p-value | Estimate (95% CI) | p-value | |
| Age | 1.010 (0.978, 1.043) | 0.54 | 0.993 (0.964, 1.023) | 0.66 |
| Gender, female | 1.547 (0.618, 3.871) | 0.35 | 0.878 (0.415, 1.856) | 0.73 |
| Race, African American | 1.173 (0.375, 3.672) | 0.78 | 0.436 (0.183, 1.036) | 0.06 |
| Marital status, married | 1.410 (0.545, 3.648) | 0.48 | 0.602 (0.271, 1.336) | 0.21 |
| Cognitive status, severe impairment | 0.699 (0.250, 1.957) | 0.50 | 0.956 (0.408, 2.240) | 0.92- |
| Interaction location, private area | 0.137 (0.044 0.431) | <0.01* | 4.521 (1.862, 10.981) | <0.01* |
| Interaction situation, care related | 1.002 (0.373, 2.698) | 0.99 | 1.339 (0.583, 3.076) | 0.50 |
| Interpersonal distance, <30 inches | 0.340 (0.151, 0.762) | <0.01* | 1.483 (0.745, 2.952) | 0.26 |
| Type of staff/person resident interacting with, nursing | 2.093 (0.771, 5.681) | 0.15 | 0.507 (0.217, 1.186) | 0.12 |
| Resident participation, active | 0.052 (0.022, .123) | <.0001* | 9.663 (4.555, 20.499) | <.0001* |
Note. N(residents)=329; Covariates: Age, gender, race, and marital status of which race and marital status were associated with ‘positive’ interaction while only marital status was associated with ‘negative/neutral’ interaction in the bivariate model. While these covariates lost their significance in the multivariate model, the predictors that were significant in bivariate model retained their significance in multivariable model except interaction distance which lost the significance in the multivariate model for ‘negative/neutral’ interactions.