Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of the study groups
| Patients n (%) |
Controls n (%) |
Statistics (x2) |
p value | |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 81 (77.9) | 61 (76.2) | 0.069 | 0.793 |
| Male | 23 (22.1) | 19 (23.8) | ||
| Educational status | ||||
| Primary school | 33 (31.7) | 27 (33.8) | ||
| Secondary school | 19 (18.3) | 16 (20.0) | 0.699 | 0.874 |
| High school | 36 (34.6) | 28 (35.0) | ||
| University | 16 (15.4) | 9 (11.2) | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Married | 66 (63.5) | 55 (68.8) | 0.562 | 0.454 |
| Single | 38 (36.5) | 25 (31.2) | ||
| Income status | ||||
| Low-income | 26 (25.0) | 21 (26.2) | 0.038 | 0.981 |
| Middle-income | 66 (63.5) | 50 (62.5) | ||
| High-income | 12 (11.5) | 9 (11.2) |