Table 7.

Caregivers’ perceived quality of life: frequencies, percentages and statistical tests.

	Frequencies	%	M	SD	Statistic test	Statistical value
Quality of life overall perception score
1.Very poor	2	0.5%
2.Poor	31	8.1%
3.Neither good nor poor	179	46.7%
4.Good	161	42.0%
5.Very good	10	2.6%
Tot.	383	100%
Quality of life score by gender
					T-test	t = 1.63, df 381, p = 0.105
Male	135		3.46	0.667
Female	248		3.34	0.707
Tot.	383		3.38	0.695
Quality of life score by age
					ANOVA	F = 7.04, df1 = 4, df 2 = 129. p < 0.001*
70–79	59		3.31	0.650
60–69	144		3.40	0.713
50–59	101		3.40	0.634
≥ 80	43		3.02	0.707
Under 50	36		3.81	0.624