Care-related Quality of Life of informal caregivers of the elderly after a hip fracture

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 3 Univariate- and multivariable linear regression results for association with intensity of provided informal care of informal caregivers

	Unadjusted^a			Adjusted^b
Caregiver characteristic	β	95% CI	p	β	95% CI	p
CarerQoL	−0.1	−0.5 – 0.3	0.60	−0.2	− 0.5 – 0.1	0.19
Partner	42.5	33.4 – 51.5	< 0.001	34.0	20.9 – 47.1	< 0.001
Age	1.3	0.9 – 1.7	< 0.001	0.3	−0.2 – 0.8	0.23
Female sex	−11.8	−23.5 – −0.2	0.05	−4.6	−13.8 – 4.7	0.33
Educational attainment
Middle vs. low	−17.0	−30.2 – − 3.8	0.01	−2.4	− 13.5 – 8.6	0.66
High vs. low	−27.4	−42.7 – −12.1	0.001	−9.1	−21.9 – 3.6	0.16
Measurement time point
At 3 months vs. 1 month	−5.4	−19.2 – 8.5	0.45	6.7	−4.9 – 18.4	0.26
At 6 months vs. 1 month	−25.6	−39.0 – 12.1	< 0.001	−8.3	− 20.1 – 3.5	0.16
Patient characteristic
Age	−1.4	−2.1 – −0.7	< 0.001	0.02	-0.7 – 0.7	0.95
Female sex	−2.0	−15.4 – 11.4	0.77	8.9	−1.7 – 19.5	0.10
Mobility
Some problems vs. no problems	12.0	−5.2 – 29.2	0.17	2.7	−10.8 – 16.1	0.39
Confined to bed vs. no problems	19.0	−1.8 – 39.9	0.07	5.1	−11.7 – 21.9	0.60
Living in an institution	−20.6	−37.2 – −3.9	0.02	−0.3	− 20.8 – 21.5	0.97
Dementia	−21.5	−36.4 – −6.6	< 0.01	−7.0	− 26.5 – 12.6	0.48
GFI	−2.9	−5.1 – −0.6	0.01	1.9	−0.4 – 4.1	0.10
EQ-5D	10.9	−16.6 – 38.4	0.43	−10.4	−32.2 – 11.4	0.35

Abbreviations: CI confidence interval, CarerQoL care-related quality of life, EQ-5D Euroqol-5 Dimensions, GFI Groningen Frailty Indicator
^aUnivariate linear regression analysis
^bMultivariable linear regression analysis, adjusted for: partner, caregiver age, caregiver gender, caregiver educational attainment, patient age, living in an institution, dementia and measurement time points