Predictors of spiritual care provision for patients with dementia at the end of life as perceived by physicians: a prospective study

Table 5 Univariable associations of the provision of spiritual end-of-life care as perceived by physicians with potential predictors related to palliative care

	Descriptives	Spiritual care at the end of life^†		Association with the provision of spiritual care; OR (95% CI)
	Descriptives	Provided	Not provided	Significant associations are italicized and bolded
Facility level ^*
Palliative care unit, %	38.5	38.1	38.6	0.72 (0.17; 3.1)
Resident level
Comfort goal of care, %	62.4	60.6	62.8	0.77 (0.34; 1.7)
Family expected death one month before, %
- Yes	33.0	35.9	32.1	1.2 (0.67; 2.3) (expected versus other)
- No	59.7	56.4	60.6
- Don’t know	7.4	7.7	7.3
Perception of dementia as a disease you can die from	3.4 (1.2)	3.1 (1.2)	3.5 (1.2)	0.82 (0.57; 1.2)/per 1-point increment agreement
- Mean 1–5 scale
- Percentage
- Completely disagree	9.5	14.7	8.1
- Partly disagree	8.3	8.8	8.1
- Neither agree, nor disagree	13.6	23.5	11.1
- Partly agree	14.2	11.8	14.8
- Completely agree	26.6	17.6	28.9
- Don’t know	27.8	23.5	28.9

^*For facility level, descriptives are weighted for number of residents who died in the facility.
^†The footnote to Table 3 provides an example of how to reverse column and row percentages of dichotomous variables to result in proportions of residents who were provided spiritual end-of-life care with each of two response options.

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