Table 3 Patient and proxy-related variables grouped according to severity of dementia.
From: Gender-dependence of substituted judgment on quality of life in patients with dementia
mild | moderate | severe | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient-related variables | ||||
N | 81 | 83 | 30 | |
Age patient | Mean | 72.91 | 73.24 | 72.67 |
SD | 7.06 | 7.07 | 7.41 | |
one-way ANOVA | p = 0.918 | |||
MMSE | Mean | 23.67 | 14.87 | 6.03 |
SD | 2.48 | 2.83 | 2.25 | |
one-way ANOVA | p < 0.001 | |||
Patient's self report | ||||
proxy(GDS)proxy | Mean | 2.93 | 2.99 | 2.63 |
SD | 2.94 | 2.77 | 2.31 | |
one-way ANOVA | p = 0.844 | |||
Proxy-related variables | ||||
Age proxy | Mean | 68.86 | 69.40 | 68.03 |
SD | 8.00 | 7.58 | 7.26 | |
one-way ANOVA | p = 0.701 | |||
proxy(QoL-AD)proxy | Mean | 36.68 | 36.72 | 36.17 |
SD | 4.99 | 5.93 | 3.35 | |
one-way ANOVA | p = 0.874 | |||
proxy(GDS)proxy | Mean | 3.35 | 3.70 | 3.80 |
SD | 2.77 | 2.85 | 2.95 | |
one-way ANOVA | p = 0.649 | |||
Proxie's report about patient | ||||
proxy(Behave-AD)patient | Mean | 4.68 | 7.04 | 7.33 |
SD | 4.46 | 4.59 | 5.47 | |
one-way ANOVA | p = 0.002 | |||
proxy(B-ADL)patient | Mean | 6.36 | 8.19 | 8.57 |
SD | 2.49 | 1.69 | 1.49 | |
one-way ANOVA | p < 0.001 | |||
proxy(iADL)patient | Mean | 3.93 | 2.00 | 1.63 |
SD | 2.38 | 1.27 | 1.59 | |
one-way ANOVA | p < 0.001 | |||
Proxie's substituted report | ||||
proxy(QoL-AD substituted)patient | Mean | 33.58 | 33.25 | 32.67 |
SD | 5.07 | 6.39 | 5.28 | |
one-way ANOVA | p = 0.752 |