Introduction
Methods
Subjects
Measures
Statistical analyses
Results
Descriptive statistics
Mean (SD) or N (%) | |
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Patient (n = 251) | |
Gender; woman | 123 (49.8%) |
Age | 69.13 (14.24) |
Educational level | 2.74 (1.78) |
Marital status; married | 165 (65.7%) |
Disability at admission (Barthel) | 11.61 (6.84) |
Length of stay (days) | 11.96 (6.88) |
Patients’ satisfaction with stroke care (SASC) | 18.07 (3.22) |
Caregiver (n = 251) | |
Gender; women | 158 (62.9%) |
Age | 59.14 (14.87) |
Educational level | 3.34 (1.81) |
Marital status; married | 206 (82.1%) |
Caregivers’ satisfaction with stroke care | 18.30 (2.89) |
Dyad characteristics (n = 251) | |
Patient and caregiver living together | 134 (53.3%) |
Relationship of caregiver to patient | |
Partner | 130 (51.9%) |
Daughter/son | 78 (31.1%) |
Brother/sister | 15 (6.0%) |
Other | 28 (11.1%) |
Univariate analyses
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
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Patient | |||||||||
1. Age | |||||||||
2. Education | −0.21** | ||||||||
3. Disability at admission (Barthel) | −0.31** | 0.07 | |||||||
4. Length of hospital stay | 0.16* | −0.04 | −0.54** | ||||||
5. Patients’ satisfaction with stroke care (SASC) | −0.09 | 0.05 | 0.24** | −0.17** | |||||
6. Quality of life (EQ-5D) | −0.31** | 0.08 | 0.61** | −0.48** | 0.35** | ||||
Caregiver | |||||||||
7. Age | 0.24** | −0.11 | −0.10 | −0.03 | −0.09 | −0.03 | |||
8. Education | −0.07 | 0.42** | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.02 | −0.01 | −0.34** | ||
9. Caregivers’ satisfaction with stroke care (C-SASC) | −0.02 | 0.07 | 0.07 | −0.11 | 0.33** | 0.12 | 0.11 | −0.12 | |
10. Quality of life (EQ-5D) | −0.05 | 0.14* | 0.31** | −0.19** | 0.10 | 0.45** | −0.19** | 0.22** | 0.08 |
Multilevel analyses
Model | (Model 1) | (Model 2) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
β | SE | β | SE | |
Patient | ||||
Constant | 0.49** | 0.02 | 0.53** | 0.14 |
Gendera
| −0.05 | 0.04 | ||
Age | −0.15** | 0.06 | ||
Education | −0.00 | 0.02 | ||
Marital statusb
| 0.01 | 0.06 | ||
Living with caregiverc
| −0.07 | 0.07 | ||
Caregiver is partnerc
| 0.00 | 0.10 | ||
Disability at admission (Barthel) | 0.16** | 0.03 | ||
Length of hospital stay | −0.09** | 0.03 | ||
Patients’ satisfaction with stroke care (SASC) | 0.21** | 0.06 | ||
Caregiver | ||||
Constant | 0.74** | 0.02 | 0.62** | 0.15 |
Gendera
| 0.10#
| 0.05 | ||
Age | −0.09 | 0.07 | ||
Education | 0.09** | 0.03 | ||
Marital statusb
| 0.00 | 0.08 | ||
Living with patientc
| 0.07 | 0.09 | ||
Patient is partnerc
| 0.04 | 0.07 | ||
Disability at admission (Barthel) | 0.08* | 0.04 | ||
Length of hospital stay | −0.00 | 0.03 | ||
Caregivers’ satisfaction with stroke care (C-SASC) | 0.08#
| 0.05 | ||
Dyad variance | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
Patient variance | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.01 |
Caregiver variance | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.01 |
−2 log likelihood | 333.23 | 208.93 | ||
Explained patient variance (%) | 30.8 | |||
Explained caregiver variance (%) | 9.1 | |||
Intraclass correlation | 0.46 | 0.32 |