. 2005 Aug;95(8):1445–1452. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.044248

TABLE 2—

Average Number of Minutes per Day of Home Care, by Child Illness Group and Type of Care

	Home Care, Average min/d
	HIV Group (n = 97)			Chronic Group (n = 101)			Healthy Group (n = 102)
Type of Care	All Caregivers: Paid and Unpaid	All Caregivers: Paid Only	Primary Caregiver Only: Paid and Unpaid	All Caregivers: Paid and Unpaid	All Caregivers: Paid Only	Primary Caregiver Only: Paid and Unpaid	All Caregivers: Paid and Unpaid	All Caregivers: Paid Only	Primary Caregiver Only: Paid and Unpaid
Technical care	65.05_x	7.70_x	41.56_x	151.73_y	32.46_y	97.55_y	7.83_z	0.13_z	6.29_z
Diagnostic procedures	18.86_x	2.79_x	10.18_x	97.47_y	24.14_y	59.63_y	6.30_z	0.04_z	5.10_x
Medications	38.00_x	4.37_x	24.78_x	17.28_y	3.46_x	13.08_y	1.20_z	0.07_y	0.95_z
Intravenous lines	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.62	0.02	0.62	0.00	0.00	0.00
Care of nasogastric or feeding tubes	2.08_x	0.51_x	0.71_x	16.97_y	3.80_y	10.99_y	0.00_x	0.00_x	0.00_x
Skin	0.04_x	0.00	0.04_x	1.34_y	0.18	1.12_y	0.04_x	0.00	0.04_x
Other tubes/equipment	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.76_x	0.83	1.36	0.00_y	0.00	0.00
Crisis	5.53_x	0.00	5.48_x	5.53_x	0.01	4.83_x	0.14_y	0.00	0.11_y
Other	0.54_x	0.02	0.38_x	9.76_y	0.02	5.94_y	0.14_x	0.01	0.10_x
Nontechnical care	131.51_x	9.37_x	91.63_x	266.90_y	37.53_y	200.01_y	140.63_x	5.81_x	102.17_x
Feeding	22.86_x	1.56_x	16.55_x	61.12_y	11.80_y	46.47_y	29.30_x	1.64_x	22.26_x
Bathing	12.46_x	1.56_x	9.10_x	16.00_x	2.20_x	11.74_x	8.60_y	0.40_y	6.14_y
Skin care	5.65_x	0.46	4.50_x	8.85_y	1.31_x	7.18_y	4.93_x	0.25_y	4.15_x
Grooming	10.55_x	0.81	8.31_x	18.53_y	1.84	15.00_y	12.43_x	0.93	10.01_x
Bowels/bladder	5.51_x	0.95_x	2.78_x	22.22_y	3.52_y	15.70_y	6.69_x	0.54_x	4.36_x
Using toilet	2.18	0.12	1.60	4.66	0.50	3.56	3.27	0.25	2.14
Getting around house	8.10_x	0.20	4.49_x	30.12_y	4.80_x	22.15_y	13.40	0.07_y	5.43_x
Getting other places	35.35	1.62	22.00_x	49.53	4.75_x	33.15_y	45.51	1.35_y	34.98_y
Transfer bed/chair	0.70_x	0.05_x	0.29_x	7.30_y	0.90_y	5.19_y	1.03_x	0.00_x	0.87_x
Laundry due to illness	9.47_x	0.34_x	7.65_x	13.71_x	2.41_y	11.98_x	3.03_y	0.02_z	2.13_y
Housecleaning due to illness	7.28_x	0.67_x	4.77_x	14.67_x	1.27_x	11.92_y	1.06_y	0.00_y	0.91_z
Dressing	6.52_x	0.39_x	5.00_x	16.49_y	1.38_y	12.73_y	8.22_x	0.34_x	6.23_x
Other	4.82	0.64	4.70	3.67	0.85	3.24	3.14	0.00	2.55
Health care management	39.72_x	1.91_x	32.01_x	48.16_x	6.09_x	42.16_x	11.86_y	0.26_y	10.34_y
Arranging care	13.61_x	0.82	12.07_x	17.60_x	3.24_x	16.32_x	4.73_y	0.14_y	4.13_y
Arranging finances/insurance	2.40	0.10	1.82	4.12_x	0.28	3.92_x	0.73_y	0.01	0.67_y
Education/training	4.57	0.02	3.27	4.27	0.38	3.78	2.28	0.03	1.94
Travel/waiting	18.70_x	0.92_x	14.38_x	20.20_x	1.91_x	16.18_x	3.78_y	0.08_y	3.30_y
Other	0.44	0.04	0.44	1.96	0.28	1.96	0.34	0.00	0.29
Total daily technical/nontechnical care
Minutes	196.56_x	17.07_x	133.19_x	418.63_y	70.00_y	297.56_y	148.46_x	5.94_z	108.46_x
Hours	3.28	. . .	. . .	6.98	. . .	. . .	2.47	. . .	. . .
Total daily all care
Minutes	236.28_x	18.97_x	165.20_x	466.79_y	76.08_y	339.73_y	160.32_z	6.20_z	118.80_z
Hours	3.94	. . .	. . .	7.78	. . .	. . .	2.67	. . .	. . .
Total daily all care after control for healthy children
Minutes	76.00	12.78	46.40	306.47	69.89	220.92
Hours	1.27	. . .	. . .	5.11	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .

Note. Groups in the same row with different subscripts are significantly different from each other at P ≤.05; groups in the same row with identical subscripts are not significantly different. No subscripts indicate no significant differences.