Table 2.
Impact of respondent’s illness condition on family
| Illness impact | Pre-ulcers, N = 15 | Ulcers, N = 166 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Total % |
Spon. % |
Mean Prominence |
Total % |
Spon. % |
Mean Prominence |
P-values |
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| Loss of income |
33.3 |
13.3 |
0.47 |
80.1 |
60.8 |
1.41 |
*** |
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| Sadness, anxiety and worry |
60.0 |
6.7 |
0.67 |
71.7 |
28.9 |
1.01 |
|
||
| Concern about course of illness |
66.7 |
26.7 |
0.93 |
81.9 |
35.5 |
1.17 |
|
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| Miss work for care-taking |
26.7 |
0.0 |
0.27 |
85.5 |
54.2 |
1.40 |
*** |
||
| None |
26.7 |
20.0 |
0.47 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
0.02 |
*** |
||
| Left the family without support | 6.7 | 6.7 | 0.13 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.04 | |||
Categories reported by less than 5% of respondents are not included in the table. Columns indicate total reported responses in percentages, spontaneously reported responses in percentages and the mean prominence. Total reported values include combined spontaneous and probed responses. The mean prominence was calculated based on assigned values to each reported category (2 = spontaneous response, 1 = probed response, 0 = not reported). The Wilcoxon ranksum test was used to compare mean prominence for pre-ulcers and ulcers (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001).