Brief telephone counselling is effective for caregivers who do not experience any major life events – caregiver-related outcomes of the German day-care study

Table 3 Multiple regression analysis with BSFC-s and WHO-5 after 6 months (t1) as dependent variables for cases without major events (n = 271)

Independent variable	BSFC-s (6-month follow up)				WHO-5 (6-month follow up)
	Unstand. b	p	95% CI		Unstand. b	p	95% CI
	Unstand. b	p	lower	upper limit	Unstand. b	p	lower	upper limit
Score at baseline^a	0.89	.000*	0.82	0.96	0.55	.000*	0.45	0.64
Group (0 = control group, 1 = intervention group)	−1.34	.010*	−2.35	−0.33	1.54	.008*	0.41	2.67
Age of caregiver	−0.02	.483	−0.07	0.03	−0.05	.098*	−0.10	0.01
Sex of caregiver (0 = female; 1 = male)	−0.63	.280	−1.78	0.52	0.20	.764	−1.09	1.49
Frequency of day-care use^b	0.20	.400	−0.27	0.68	0.12	.651	−0.41	0.65
Other relief services^c	−0.14	.557	−0.60	0.33	0.11	.675	−0.41	0.63
Other counselling services^d	−0.19	.758	− 1.38	1.01	−0.58	.378	−1.89	0.72
Sole informal caregiver (0 = no, 1 = yes)	− 0.67	.252	−1.81	0.48	−0.30	.638	−1.56	0.96
Change in PCIs’ neuropsychiatric symptoms^e	0.03	.856	−0.24	0.29	−0.29	.059	−0.59	0.01

Significant p-values (<.05) are shown in bold and marked with *, p-values below .1 are marked with *
Abbreviations: BSFC-s Burden Scale for Family Caregivers short (score) WHO-5 Well-Being Index score PCI person with cognitive impairment
^aBSFC-s at baseline if BSFC-s 6-month follow-up is dependent variable, WHO-5 at baseline if WHO-5 6-month follow-up is dependent variable
^baverage frequency per week (months 1–6)
^csum of domestic care service, care group, meals on wheels, respite care, outpatient care service, home-help service
^dsum of caregiver skill training, counselling service for caregivers, support group for caregivers
^ecomputed via Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q), change score as the difference between the NPI score at baseline and after 6 months, positive values on the NPI change score indicate improvements in neuropsychiatric symptoms

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