Predictors of Mortality in Home Health Care Service: Data from Saudi Arabia

Figures & data

Table 1 Basic Demographics and Health Characteristics of Study Population

Variables		Frequency	Percent
Gender	Male	241	43.42
	Female	314	56.58
Marital status	Single	47	8.6
	Married	407	74.1
	Widowed	90	16.4
	Divorced	4	0.7
Education	Illiterate	260	66.8
	Literate > 4-year education	5	1.3
	Primary school education	28	7.2
	Intermediate	13	3.3
	High school	18	4.6
	College technical	29	7.5
	Postgraduate degree	36	9.3
Coronary artery Disease		112	20.51
Any cardiovascular disease		244	44.77
Stroke		153	28.02
Cancer		61	11.19
Hypertension		392	71.66
Diabetes		363	66.36
Dementia		188	34.43
Depression		143	26.38
Benign prostatic hyperplasia		80	14.81
Osteoporosis		104	19.37
Fracture		67	12.27
Pressure ulcers		126	23.03
Status	Deceased	199	35.9
	Alive	355	64.1
Mode of feeding	Oral feeding	191	34.9
	Oral with assistance	264	48.2
	Nasogastric tube	61	11.1
	PEG Tube	31	5.7
	Jejunostomy tube	1	0.2

Figure 1 Distribution of chronic health conditions among Saudi people receiving long-term HHC services.

Table 2 Predictors of Mortality of HHC Service Recipient

Predictor	B	S.E.	Wald	Sig.	Exp(B)	95% C.I. for EXP(B)
						Lower	Upper
Days hospitalized	0.010	0.005	3.384	0.066	1.010	0.999	1.021
Time spent in HHC services	−0.001	0.000	3.509	0.061	0.999	0.999	1.000
Age	0.017	0.018	0.938	0.333	1.017	0.983	1.053
Cancer	0.680	0.436	2.432	0.119	1.974	0.840	4.639
Pressure ulcers	1.341	0.336	15.898	<0.001*	3.824	1.978	7.393
Multimorbidity	−0.728	0.438	2.767	0.096	0.483	0.205	1.139
Clinical frailty score	0.579	0.183	10.022	0.002*	1.784	1.247	2.552

Notes: The significance of predictors of patient status (alive or deceased) as partial effects estimated using logistic regression. Asterisks denote significant associations: *p<0.05.

Figure 2 Significant partial associations between mortality and each of clinical frailty score and pressure ulcers.