Table 3.
Caregiver characteristics according to caregiver diabetes status
| Characteristica | Overall N = 1494b | Caregivers with diabetes N = 127 | Caregivers without diabetes N = 1367 | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caregiver characteristics | ||||
| Age, yearsc | 67.3 (12.04) | 72.4 (9.67) | 66.9 (12.13) | <0.001 |
| Sex, n (%) female | 958 (64.2) | 69 (54.3) | 889 (65.1) | 0.012 |
| Marital status, n (%) | 0.022 | |||
| Married/cohabiting | 1316 (88.1) | 123 (96.9) | 1193 (87.3) | |
| Widowed | 38 (2.5) | 1 (0.8) | 37 (2.7) | |
| Divorced/separated | 70 (4.7) | 1 (0.8) | 69 (5.1) | |
| Never married | 69 (4.6) | 2 (1.6) | 67 (4.9) | |
| Relationship to the patient, n (%) | <0.001 | |||
| Wife | 503 (33.7) | 50 (39.4) | 453 (33.2) | |
| Husband | 481 (32.2) | 53 (41.7) | 428 (31.3) | |
| Child | 405 (27.1) | 13 (10.2) | 392 (28.7) | |
| Friend | 20 (1.3) | 2 (1.6) | 18 (1.3) | |
| Other | 84 (5.6) | 9 (7.1) | 75 (5.5) | |
| Caregiver lives with the patient, n (%) | 1135 (76.0) | 113 (89.0) | 1022 (74.8) | <0.001 |
| Caregivers with medical conditionsd, n (%) | 127 (100) | 748 (54.7) | 875 (58.6) | 0.178 |
| Diabetes drug use, n (%) | 118 (92.9) | |||
aData are presented as mean (SD) unless indicated otherwise. Percentages reported are for caregivers with data available for each specific variable. Missing data (overall) were n = 1 for all variables, except medical conditions and diabetes drug use (no missing data)
bDiabetes status was unknown for one caregiver, thus N = 1494
cThe Case Report Form collected only birth year data, thus the missing month and day were imputed with 15 July. Age is the year part of the difference between the date of Informed Consent and the imputed birth date
dData include the presence of diabetes
P-values are for the comparison between caregiver diabetes groups (ANOVA for continuous variables, with country and diabetes status as factors, and Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test for categorical variables, with stratification by country)
P-values indicating statistically significant differences between caregiver diabetes groups (p < 0.05) are highlighted in bold type