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Table 2 Baseline characteristics of participants

From: Improving the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial of the 'Your Care Needs You' intervention versus usual care

Variable

 

Intervention (n = 95)

Control (n = 66)

All (n = 161)

Participant status

Patient

85 (89.5%)

56 (84.8%)

141 (87.6%)

Informal carer

10 (10.5%)

10 (15.2%)

20 (12.4%)

Gender

Male

48 (50.5%)

18 (27.3%)

66 (41.0%)

Female

47 (49.5%)

48 (72.7%)

95 (59.0%)

Age (years)

N

95 (100.0%)

66 (100.0%)

161 (100.0%)

Mean (SD)

83.3 (5.2)

83.7 (4.8)

83.4 (5.0)

Median (IQR)

83.0 (79, 87)

83.5 (81, 86)

83.0 (79, 87)

Min, Max

75.0, 95.0

75.0, 95.0

75.0, 95.0

Ethnicity

White British

91 (95.8%)

66 (100.0%)

157 (97.5%)

White Irish

2 (2.1%)

0 (0.0%)

2 (1.2%)

White other

1 (1.1%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (0.6%)

Pakistani

1 (1.1%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (0.6%)

Number of previous hospital admissions in the previous 12 monthsa

0

52 (54.7%)

30 (45.5%)

82 (50.9%)

1

16 (16.8%)

18 (27.3%)

34 (21.1%)

2

13 (13.7%)

12 (18.2%)

25 (15.5%)

3

4 (4.2%)

0 (0.0%)

4 (2.5%)

4+

5 (5.3%)

5 (7.6%)

10 (6.2%)

Not reported

5 (5.3%)

1 (1.5%)

6 (3.7%)

Barthel indexa

N

95 (100.0%)

66 (100.0%)

161 (100.0%)

Mean (SD)

14.3 (4.3)

13.0 (4.5)

13.8 (4.4)

Median (IQR)

15.0 (10, 18)

14.0 (10, 17)

15.0 (10, 17)

Min, max

4, 20

1, 20

1, 20

Functional Comorbidity Indexa

N

95 (100.0%)

66 (100.0%)

161 (100.0%)

Mean (SD)

3.7 (2.1)

3.5 (2.0)

3.6 (2.0)

Median (IQR)

3.0 (2, 5)

3.0 (2, 4)

3.0 (2, 5)

Min, max

0, 10

0, 9

0, 10

  1. aClinical outcome measures were collected at baseline to assess the feasibility of data collection. Information on how the Barthel index and Functional Comorbidity Index are scored is provided in Table 1