Depressive symptoms in long term care facilities in Western Canada: a cross sectional study

BMC Geriatrics

Table 5 Influence of cognitive impairment and other resident, care unit and facility characteristics on depressive symptoms, based on generalized linear mixed models

	Model results
	Est	SE	P	OR	95% CI
Intercept	−2.613	0.308	< 0.0001	─	─	─
Cognitive impairment	0.499	0.072	< 0.0001	1.648	1.430	1.899
Age	−0.006	0.003	0.015	1.006	1.001	1.011
Female	0.386	0.056	< 0.0001	1.471	1.318	1.641
Comorbidities
Anxiety	0.751	0.107	< 0.0001	2.119	1.717	2.614
Respiratory disease	0.359	0.069	< 0.0001	1.432	1.251	1.639
Other impairments
Dependency in ADL	−0.111	0.052	0.033	0.895	0.809	0.991
Pain	0.980	0.080	< 0.0001	2.665	2.278	3.119
Unit type (ref = general long term care)
Non secure dementia	0.331	0.298	0.268	1.392	0.776	2.497
Other	−0.154	0.235	0.514	0.858	0.541	1.360
Secure dementia	0.304	0.143	0.033	1.356	1.025	1.793
Secure mental health/psychiatric	0.781	0.512	0.127	2.184	0.800	5.958
Facility location (health region) ref = Winnipeg Health
Calgary Zone	1.648	0.273	< 0.0001	5.195	3.040	8.877
Edmonton Zone	1.246	0.266	< 0.0001	3.475	2.062	5.857
Fraser Health	0.100	0.248	0.688	1.105	0.680	1.795
Interior Health	0.949	0.297	0.001	2.583	1.444	4.620
Facility owner-operator model (ref = private for-profit)
Public not for profit	0.527	0.230	0.022	1.693	1.079	2.658
Voluntary not for profit	0.390	0.183	0.033	1.476	1.032	2.112
	Model fit
	Est
−2 Log Likelihood	11,114.36
AICC (smaller is better)	11,154.44
BIC (smaller is better)	11,204.58
	Covariance components
	Est	SE	P	95% CI		ICC*
Facility	0.333	0.093	0.0002	0.206	0.626	0.092
Unit	0.479	0.070	< 0.0001	0.367	0.650	0.127
	−2 Res. LL		P
Test for independence	11,980		< 0.0001

Est Estimate, SE Standard Error, OR Odds Ratio, CI Confidence Interval, ICC Intra-cluster Correlation Coefficient
Bold entries is meant to indicate where the p value is significant

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