Table-I.
Association of Anxiety levels with study and illness variables.
| Study Variables | Anxiety Levels | X2 -value/ | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Border line | Case | p- value** | ||
| Age groups | |||||
| 14-30 | 58(55.2) | 29(27.6) | 18(17.1) | 0.049 | 0.43 |
| 31-60 | 49(49.5) | 22(22.2) | 28(28.3) | ||
| >60 | 29(54.7) | 11(20.8) | 12(24.5) | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 69(60) | 22(19.1) | 24(20.9) | 2.55 | 0.11 |
| Female | 67(47.5) | 39(27.7) | 35(24.8) | ||
| Marital Status | |||||
| Married | 77(55.4) | 23(16.5) | 39(28.1) | 16.99 | 0.002* |
| Unmarried | 48(57.1) | 25(29.8) | 11(13.1) | ||
| Divorced/widow | 11(32.3) | 14(41.2) | 9(26.5) | ||
| Educational Status | |||||
| Illiterate | 40(47.6) | 18(21.4) | 26(31) | -0.107 | 0.087 |
| Primary | 36(52.9) | 13(19.1) | 19(27.9) | ||
| Secondary | 48(60) | 25(31.2) | 7(8.8) | ||
| Higher | 12(48) | 6(24) | 7(28) | ||
| Employment | |||||
| Housewife | 38(45.8) | 20(24.1) | 25(30.1) | 9.15 | 0.33 |
| Student | 32(52.5) | 20(32.8) | 9(14.8) | ||
| Employed | 41(61.2) | 12(17.9) | 14(20.9) | ||
| Unemployed | 15(51.7) | 6(20.7) | 8(27.6) | ||
| Retired | 10(58.8) | 4(23.5) | 3(17.6) | ||
| Economical Status | |||||
| Upper | 33(61.1) | 14(25.9) | 7(13) | 0.178 | 0.004* |
| Middle | 93(54.4) | 39(22.8) | 39(22.8) | ||
| Lower | 10(31.2) | 9(28.1) | 13(40.6) | ||
| Previous Admission | |||||
| No | 84(52.2) | 36(22.4) | 41(25.5) | 0.68 | 0.41 |
| Yes | 52(54.2) | 26(27.1) | 18(18.8) | ||
| Specialty | |||||
| Medicine & Allied | 46(54.1) | 23(27.1) | 16(18.8) | 0.61 | 0.43 |
| Surgical & allied | 7(63.6) | 3(27.3) | 1(9.1) | ||
| Current admission | |||||
| No | 119(52.9) | 55(24.3) | 52(23) | 0.02 | 0.88 |
| Yes | 15(53.6) | 7(25) | 6(21.4) | ||
| Progress | |||||
| Improving | 67(59.3) | 24(21.2) | 22(19.5) | 4.25 | 0.37 |
| Worsening | 5(45.5) | 2(18.2) | 4(36.4) | ||
| Variable | 64(48.1) | 36(27.1) | 33(24.4) | ||
| Prognosis | |||||
| Good | 105(54) | 44(21.8) | 49(24.3) | 0.044 | 0.83 |
| Bad | 27(49.1) | 18(32.7) | 10(18.2) | ||
*
Statistically significant;
**
Spearman correlation coefficient