Table 1.

Sociodemographic data for the total sample and segmented by the overburdened and non-overburdened participants.

	Total			No Overload			Overload
	N	%		N	%		N	%
Relationship
Son/Daughter	37	62.7		13	61.9		24	63.2
Partner	21	35.6		8	38.1		13	34.2
Brother/Sister	1	1.7
Economic sufficiency
Yes	32	54.2		11	52.4		21	55.3
No	27	45.8		10	47.6		17	44.7
Level of education
Reading and writing	5	8.5		0	0		5	13.2
Primary education	9	15.3		5	23.8		4	10.5
Secondary education	13	22.0		6	28.6		7	18.4
Baccalaureate	16	27.1		6	28.6		10	26.3
Higher education	16	27.1		4	19.0		12	31.6
Marital status
Single	11	18.6		7	33.3		4	10.5
Married	42	71.2		12	57.1		30	78.9
Divorced	5	8.5		2	9.5		3	7.9
Widowed	1	1.7		0	0		0	0
	N	Mean	SD	n	Mean	DT		Mean	SD	p
Age (years)	59	59.30	10.58	21	59.71	10.27	38	59.08	10.89	0.827
Years of care	56	14.05	10.130	19	15.89	11.14	37	13.11	9.60	0.335
BMI (kg/m2)	56	27.31	4.21	20	26.58	3.50	36	27.72	4.56	0.336
WHR (cm)	51	0.85	0.083	20	0.87	0.097	31	0.84	0.072	0.189

BMI: body mass index; WHR: waist–hip ratio.