Table 2.
Characteristics of the Caregivers and Care Recipients Based on Caregivers’ Anxiety Symptom.
| Characteristics | One or More Anxiety symptoms of caregivers (n=21) (M±SD) |
No anxiety symptoms of caregivers (n=13) (M±SD) |
t | df | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caregivers | Age | 58.0±12.2 | 61.3±13.9 | −0.681 | 29 | 0.501 |
| Baseline Depression | 9.7±8.7 | 7.9±5.9 | 0.562 | 24 | 0.579 | |
| Impact of COVID on caregiving | 5.0±2.7 | 3.1±3.4 | 1.784 | 32 | 0.084 | |
| Care Recipients (Persons living with dementia) |
Age | 76.1±9.4 | 73.6±7.0 | 0.804 | 32 | 0.427 |
| Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) | 0.6±0.2 | 0.5±0.1 | 1.644 | 31.991 | 0.110 | |
| Functional Independence | 93.0±10.7 | 99.4±1.7 | −2.296 | 15.121 | 0.036 | |
| Number of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (Post) | 2.1±2.6 | 1.3±1.6 | 0.919 | 28 | 0.366 |