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Table 2 Psychotropic medications in a home-like model of residential care compared with standard models of care

From: Psychotropic medications in older people in residential care facilities and associations with quality of life: a cross-sectional study

 

Home-like model, OR (95% CI), P value

Psychotropic medication

0.24 (0.12, 0.46), < 0.001

Antipsychotic medication

0.67 (0.34, 1.33), 0.25

Antidepressant medication

0.50 (0.28, 0.88), 0.02

Benzodiazepine medication

0.11 (0.05, 0.24), < 0.001

  1. The reference for prescribed one or more psychotropic medications is being prescribed no psychotropic medications. The models are adjusted for facility-level confounding factors: location, number of direct care hours, facility cost and size of facility and resident-level characteristics: age, sex, marital status, PAS-Cog scores, number of co-morbid conditions, NPI scores, social ties and Barthel Index