Day care for dementia patients from a family caregiver's point of view: A questionnaire study on expected quality and predictors of utilisation - Part II

Table 2 Binary logistic regression analysis with use of day care as dependent variable (N = 404)

	Regression coefficient β	P	Odds ratio	95% Confidence interval for odds ratio
				Lower value	Higher value
Gender of family caregiver ^a	0.17	0.70	1.19	0.49	2.91
Age of family caregiver	0.04	0.05	1.04	1.00	1.07
School leaving certificate (1)^b	0.24	0.62	1.27	0.50	3.25
School leaving certificate (2)^b	0.06	0.90	1.06	0.42	2.67
Gender of dementia patient¹	-0.06	0.90	0.95	0.40	2.26
Age of dementia patient	0.00	0.85	1.00	0.96	1.05
Help from others (informal or formal caregivers)^c	-0.45	0.25	0.64	0.30	1.37
Duration of illness	< 0.001	0.97	1.00	0.99	1.01
Hours per day spent on care	-0.04	0.37	0.96	0.88	1.05
Place of residence (city)^c	-0.10	0.78	0.91	0.45	1.83
"Knowing" about day care ^c	-20.21	1.00	< 0.001	< 0.001	.
"Need" for day care	1.07	<.001	2.92	2.19	3.89
Accessibility of day care facilities (1)^d	-0.75	0.07	0.47	0.21	1.07
Accessibility of day care facilities (2)^d	-1.39	0.06	0.25	0.06	1.08

^aGender: 0 = male, 1 = female
^b School leaving certificate: 1 = secondary school, 2 = vocational school, reference value: grammar school
^c 0 = yes 1 = no
^d Accessibility of day care facilities: 1 = don't know, 2 = not easily accessible, reference value: accessible
df: number of degrees of freedom
p: significance

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