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Table 2 Experience during the lockdown for the 105 dyads, reported by the caregivers

From: The consequences of COVID-19 lockdown for formal and informal resource utilization among home-dwelling people with dementia: results from the prospective PAN.DEM study

 

All

(n = 105)

Co-residing caregivers

(n = 46)

Visiting caregivers

(n = 59)

Difference, p-valuea

Missing data

(n)

Have health care services been influenced by pandemic, yes

63 (60.2)

27 (58.7)

36 (61.0)

0.810

–

Have you or person with dementia self-canceled servicesb, yes

21 (22.1)

9 (21.4)

12 (22.6)

0.887

10

Are you temporarily laid off due to the COVID-19 restrictions, yes

9 (8.6)

2 (4.35)

7 (11.86)

< 0.001

–

The overall situation compared to immediately before the pandemic to lockdown:

   

0.600

–

 - Worse

71 (67.6)

15 (32.6)

42 (71.2)

  

 - Better

5 (4.8)

2 (4.4)

3 (5.1)

  

 - No change

29 (27.6)

15 (32.6)

14 (23.7)

  
  1. Results are presented in n (%)
  2. aTested with The Mann-Whitney U test for nonnormally distributed continuous variables and Pearson χ2 tests for categorical variables
  3. bIncludes primary and secondary health care services