Table 1.
Demographic data homogeneity for the two participant groups
| Overall (N = 151) |
Experimental (n = 73) |
Control (n = 78) |
ta /χ2 b | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%)/mean ± SD | n (%)/mean ± SD | ||||
| Gender | 0.43 b | 0.514 | |||
| Male | 89 (58.9) | 45 (61.6) | 44 (56.4) | ||
| Female | 62 (41.1) | 28 (38.4) | 34 (43.6) | ||
| Age | 49.53 ± 9.27 | 48.35 ± 9.84 | 50.63 ± 8.63 | −1.51 a | 0.132 |
| Education level | 2.64 b | 0.267 | |||
| Middle school and below | 62 (41.1) | 31 (42.5) | 31 (39.7) | ||
| High school or vocational school | 65 (43.0) | 34 (46.5) | 31 (39.8) | ||
| College and above | 24 (15.9) | 8 (11.0) | 16 (20.5) | ||
| Marital status | 0.42 b | 0.813 | |||
| Single | 106 (70.2) | 50 (68.5) | 56 (71.8) | ||
| Married | 25 (16.6) | 12 (16.4) | 13 (16.7) | ||
| Divorced/widowed | 20 (13.2) | 11 (15.1) | 9 (11.5) | ||
| Living status | 0.02 b | 0.896 | |||
| Living alone | 14 (9.3) | 7 (9.6) | 7 (9.0) | ||
| Living with family | 137 (90.7) | 66 (90.4) | 71 (91.0) | ||
| Employed | 0.01 b | 0.976 | |||
| No | 116 (76.8) | 56 (76.7) | 60 (76.9) | ||
| Yes | 35 (23.2) | 17 (23.3) | 18 (23.1) | ||
| Religion | 0.38 b | 0.945 | |||
| None | 32 (21.2) | 17 (23.3) | 15 (19.2) | ||
| Buddhist | 64 (42.4) | 30 (41.1) | 34 (43.6) | ||
| Taoist | 32 (21.2) | 15 (20.5) | 17 (21.8) | ||
| Christian | 23 (15.2) | 11 (15.1) | 12 (15.4) | ||
| Economic status | 0.07 b | 0.792 | |||
| Middle income | 72 (47.7) | 34 (46.6) | 38 (48.7) | ||
| Low income | 79 (52.3) | 39 (53.4) | 40 (51.3) | ||
| Number of years of homecare received | 4.58 b | 0.101 | |||
| < 1 year | 14 (9.3) | 6 (8.2) | 8 (10.3) | ||
| 1–2 years | 36 (23.8) | 23 (31.5) | 13 (16.6) | ||
| ≥ 2 years | 101 (66.9) | 44 (60.3) | 57 (73.1) | ||
| Total number of psychiatric hospitalizations | 3.59 ± 3.95 | 3.79 ± 4.30 | 3.40 ± 3.59 | 0.62 a | 0.538 |
| Number of psychiatric hospitalizations within the previous year | 0.15 ± 0.44 | 0.19 ± 0.52 | 0.10 ± 0.35 | 1.24 a | 0.218 |
Noteat-test; b chi-squared test