Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and response frequencies for care burden items.
| Care burden | N | Mean | Lower 95%CI | Upper 95%CI | SD | Variance | Never (0) | Rarely (1) | Sometimes (2) | Often (3) | Almost always (4) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |||||||
| 1. Not having time for oneself | 386 | 2.19 | 2.08 | 2.30 | 1.13 | 1.28 | 33 | 8.5 | 66 | 17.1 | 133 | 34.5 | 103 | 26.7 | 51 | 13.2 |
| 2. Feeling stressed | 386 | 2.25 | 2.13 | 2.37 | 1.19 | 1.43 | 43 | 11.1 | 51 | 13.2 | 119 | 30.8 | 114 | 29.5 | 59 | 15.3 |
| 3. Feeling fatigue | 386 | 2.07 | 1.95 | 2.19 | 1.21 | 1.47 | 54 | 14 | 60 | 15.5 | 125 | 32.4 | 99 | 25.6 | 48 | 12.4 |
| 4. Feeling of insecurity | 386 | 1.38 | 1.26 | 1.49 | 1.15 | 1.33 | 105 | 27.2 | 115 | 29.8 | 101 | 26.2 | 45 | 11.7 | 20 | 5.2 |
The CI of the mean assumes sample means follow a t-distribution with N - 1 degrees of freedom.