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

Table 6 Univariable associations of the provision of spiritual end-of-life care as perceived by physicians with other potential predictors including demographics

	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 ^*
Facility size, number of psychogeriatric (dementia) care beds	110 (SD 51)	96 (58)	113 (58)	*0.991 (0.982; 1.000* ) ^‡/bed
Physician level
Female gender physician, %	62.6	65.9	61.7	1.1 (0.46; 2.8)
Age physician (resident level), mean number of years (SD)	43.1 (8.7)	42.1 (9.1)	43.4 (8.7)	1.00 (0.95; 1.05) per year
Resident level
Female gender resident, %	66.2	67.4	65.9	1.2 (0.52; 2.6)
Age resident, mean (SD)	85.3 (6.4)	86.4 (5.9)	85.1 (6.5)	1.03 (0.97; 1.09) per year increment
Dementia severity, mean BANS-S score (SD)	14.6 (4.5)	15.3 (4.3)	14.4 (4.5)	1.03 (0.96; 1.11) per point increment
Female gender family, %	61.5	72.1	58.6	*2.4 (1.1; 5.1)*
Age family, mean (SD)	61.1 (11.7)	58.6 (10.2)	61.7 (12.0)	0.97 (0.94; 1.01) per year increment
Relationship family with resident, %
- Spouse or partner	20.0	15.4	21.2	Reference
- Child	59.5	66.7	57.7	1.5 (0.59; 4.0)
- Other	20.5	17.9	21.2	1.3 (0.43; 3.8)

^*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.
^‡p = 0.046.

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