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. 2024 May 16;23:329. doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-01986-x

Table 1.

Demographic data homogeneity for the two participant groups

Overall
(N = 151)
Experimental
(n = 73)
Control
(n = 78)
ta2 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