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Table 6 Association between socio-demographic and clinical determinants and change in formal and informal care, N = 105

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

Covariates variables	Total formal care time^a,b				Home nursing service^b
Covariates variables	Coef.	95% CI lower	95% CI upper	P	Coef.	95% CI lower	95% CI upper	P
Co-residency	−7.42	−26.47	11.66	0.441	5.50	−1.40	12.40	0.116
PwD age	−0.24	−1.28	0.79	0.640	0.12	−0.25	0.49	0.519
CG age	0.59	−0.24	1.43	0.163	0.03	−0.27	0.33	0.849
PwD gender, female	−2.65	−17.24	11.94	0.719	−1.67	−6.91	3.59	0.530
CG gender, female	−3.30	−17.42	10.80	0.642	−1.44	−6.47	3.59	0.571
CG not working	3.70	−14.53	21.94	0.687	−1.38	−7.94	5.18	0.676
MMSE	−0.74	−2.45	0.98	0.396	−0.64	−1.26	− 0.02	0.044
IADL	−2.51	−4.32	−0.69	0.007	−0.72	−1.62	0.17	0.112
PSMS	0.22	−2.26	2.71	0.858	−0.29	−0.95	0.36	0.375
Prob > F	0.031				0.042
R-squared	0.190				0.177
n	94				96

N = total sample, n = number of patients, CG caregiver, PwD Person with dementia, CI Confidence Interval
^aHome nursing, home help, daycare center
^bHours in a month
^cMMSE – Mini-Mental Status Examination, at the trial inclusion (range 0–30)
^dPSMS - Physical Self-Maintenance Scale (range 6–30)
^eInstrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale (range 8–31)

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