The effect of multimodal comprehensive care methodology training on oral health care professionals’ empathy for patients with dementia

Table 2 Patient characteristics

	Total (n = 132)	Data available (n = 71)	Lost to follow up^a (n = 61)	P-value^b
Age, n (%)
< 65 years	1 (0.8)	0 (0.0)	1 (1.6)	0.46
65–74 years	11 (8.3)	4 (6.0)	7 (11.5)	0.56
75–84 years	51 (38.6)	27 (38.0)	24 (39.3)	0.67
≥ 85 years	68 (51.5)	40 (56.3)	28 (45.9)	0.39
Women, n (%)	96 (72.7)	53 (74.6)	43 (70.5)	0.70
Aetiology of dementia, n (%)
Alzheimer’s disease	55 (41.7)	41 (57.7)	14 (23.0)	< 0.001
Lewy body dementia	11 (8.3)	7 (9.9)	4 (6.6)	0.54
Vascular dementia	8 (6.1)	5 (7.0)	3 (2.3)	0.72
Other type of dementia	7 (5.3)	4 (5.6)	3 (2.3)	1.00
Dementia with undetermined aetiology	43 (32.6)	14 (19.7)	29 (47.5)	< 0.001

^a Lost to follow up: 36 patients were excluded due to non-response; 12 patients were excluded due to missing OHAT data; 1 patient was excluded due to missing data on age; 2 patients were excluded due to hospital admission; 2 patients were excluded due to death; and 8 patients were excluded due to no diagnosis of dementia
^b The Mann-Whitney U test and Fisher’s exact test were used to compare the available data and the data of those lost to follow up. The threshold for statistical significance was set at p < 0.05

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