Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics | |
Age (years) | M = 58.3; DS = 12.4 |
Gender (% female) | 31.2 |
Disease duration | M = 14.4; DS = 11.1 |
Marital status (%) | |
Never married | 7.5 |
Married | 79.5 |
Divorced | 10.8 |
Widowed | 2.2 |
Employment (%) | |
Employed | 43.0 |
Retired | 44.0 |
Housewife | 3.2 |
Student | 2.2 |
Unemployed | 5.4 |
Other | 2.2 |
Education (%) | |
Elementary school | 5.4 |
Junior high school | 14.0 |
High school | 50.5 |
College education | 23.7 |
Ph.D. or M.S. degree | 6.4 |
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Psychometric measures | |
PHE-S | Median = 3 (range 1–4); entropy = 0.89; ordinal alpha = 0.82 |
PAM | M = 66.8 (range 0–100); DS = 18.3; Cronbach's alpha = 0.93 |
MMAS-4 | M = 1.3 (range 0–4); DS = 1.3; Cronbach's alpha = 0.81 |
HCCQ | M = 66.8 (range 13–91); DS = 15.1; Cronbach's alpha = 0.92 |