Table 3.
Sociodemographic and Clinical Variables of Caregivers in Severe Mental Disorders (SMDs) and Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)
Variable | Group | Severe mental disorder | Substance use disorder | Chi-square | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Percent | N | Percent | Value | P-value | ||
Gender | Male | 90 | 55.6 | 51 | 52 | 0.3 | 0.581 |
Female | 72 | 44.4 | 47 | 48 | |||
Education | Illiterate | 11 | 6.8 | 9 | 9.2 | 4.36 | 0.225 |
Under high school diploma | 71 | 43.8 | 52 | 53.1 | |||
High school diploma | 53 | 32.7 | 28 | 28.6 | |||
Academic | 27 | 16.7 | 9 | 9.2 | |||
Occupation | Unemployed | 75 | 46.3 | 49 | 50 | 3.07 | 0.381 |
Employee | 23 | 14.2 | 7 | 7.1 | |||
Worker | 1 | 0.6 | 1 | 1.0 | |||
Freelancer | 63 | 38.9 | 41 | 41.8 | |||
Marital status | Single | 35 | 21.6 | 13 | 13.3 | 3.35 | 0.341 |
Married | 104 | 64.2 | 72 | 73.5 | |||
Divorced | 7 | 4.3 | 5 | 5.1 | |||
Widow/widower | 16 | 9.9 | 8 | 8.2 | |||
Relationship with the patient | Mother | 35 | 21.6 | 19 | 19.38 | 8.30 | 0.140 |
Father | 29 | 17.9 | 25 | 25.51 | |||
Sister | 17 | 10.49 | 8 | 8.16 | |||
Brother | 39 | 24.07 | 21 | 21.42 | |||
Spouse | 23 | 14.19 | 21 | 21.42 | |||
Other | 19 | 11.72 | 4 | 4.08 |