Association between Advance Care Planning for Older Adults and Family Caregivers’ Sense of Security in Home Care Settings: A Prospective Cohort Study

Table 2

Factors associated with positive change in family caregivers’ sense of security: multivariate logistic regression analyses.

	Positive change in family caregivers’ sense of security
	Overall sample (n = 168)			Family caregivers were spouses (n = 93)			Family caregivers were children (n = 75)
	AOR	[95% CI]		AOR	[95% CI]		AOR	[95% CI]
ACP was conducted	0.54	[0.19–1.48]	0.227	3.19	[1.15–8.85]	0.026	0.62	[0.21–1.79]	0.374
Family caregivers were spouses^a	0.65	[0.20–2.09]	0.466
ACP was conducted × family caregivers were spouses^a	5.01	[1.28–19.66]	0.021
Clients’ characteristics
Age	1.07	[1.01–1.14]	0.028	1.11	[1.02–1.22]	0.021	1.09	[0.98–1.22]	0.117
Gender	0.84	[0.38–1.86]	0.669	0.41	[0.13–1.34]	0.140	2.30	[0.63–8.34]	0.205
Not receiving medical procedure	2.15	[1.04–4.41]	0.038	2.00	[0.70–5.74]	0.198	1.86	[0.63–5.48]	0.259
Family caregivers' characteristics
Having sufficient financial resources	0.64	[0.23–1.78]	0.396	0.23	[0.06–0.95]	0.042	5.62	[0.58–54.42]	0.136
Family caregivers having burden	0.39	[0.19–0.79]	0.009	0.35	[0.12–1.04]	0.060	0.28	[0.09–0.82]	0.021
Nagelkerke R^2	0.172			0.250			0.238

ACP = advance care planning; AOR = adjusted odds ratio; CI = confidence interval. ^aReference: family caregivers were adult children.