Caregiver-distress-OHT-EN - Health Quality Ontario (HQO)

INDICATOR NAME

Name

Caregiver distress (OHT)

Alternate Name

Caregiver distress (OHT)

INDICATOR DESCRIPTION

Description

Proportion of long-stay home care clients >65
years of age that had a caregiver that is unable
to continue in caring activities or that expresses
feelings of distress, anger and/or depression

Indicator Status

Active

HQO Reporting tool/product

Ontario Health Teams: Quality

Dimension

Patient-centred

Type

Outcome

DEFINITION AND SOURCE INFORMATION

Unit of Measurement

Percentage

Calculation Methods

Assessments that are not the most recent in the reporting period, for those with multiple assessments.

Numerator including inclusion/exclusion

Assessments that indicate a caregiver is unable to continue in caring activities (variable P2A) or the caregiver expresses feelings of distress, anger or depression (P2B)

Denominator including inclusion/exclusion

Total population age 66 years or older with an interRAIHC assessment in the observation period that had a caregiver (variable P1b1 = 0, 1 or 2). For long-stay home care clients with >1 assessment, we take the most recent.

Adjustment (risk, age/sex standardization)- detailed

Model-based risk-adjusted via logistic regression using individual-level data, controlling for age (continuous) and
sex

Data Source

OHTAM (Ontario Health Teams Attribution Model), Registered Persons Database (RPDB)

Data provided to HQO by

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Caveats and Limitations

InterRAIHC data was not available in 2017/18 A lower value (%) is desirable for this indicator