Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of dysphagia subjects with nasogastric tube feeding and caregivers.
| Variables | Terms | N | Yes (n = 55) |
No (n = 73) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Participants | |||||
| Gender | Male | 65 | 32 (58.18) | 33 (45.21) | 0.146 |
| Female | 63 | 23 (41.82) | 40 (54.79) | ||
| Age | ≦64 years old | 26 | 11 (20.00) | 15 (20.55) | 0.939 |
| ≧65 years old | 102 | 44 (80.00) | 58 (79.45) | ||
| Marital status | Single | 7 | 1 (1.82) | 6 (8.22) | 0.115 |
| Married | 121 | 54 (98.18) | 67 (91.78) | ||
| Education level | Less than senior high school | 107 | 45 (81.82) | 62 (84.93) | 0.638 |
| Senior high school or higher | 21 | 10 (18.18) | 11 (15.07) | ||
| Disease | ≦2 | 40 | 17 (30.91) | 23 (31.51) | 0.942 |
| ≧3 | 88 | 38 (69.09) | 50 (68.49) | ||
| Dependence in activities | Completely | 114 | 49 (89.09) | 65 (89.04) | 0.993 |
| Partially | 14 | 6 (10.91) | 8 (10.96) | ||
| Weight status | Underweight | 25 | 13 (23.64) | 12 (16.44) | 0.534 |
| Healthy weight | 81 | 34 (61.82) | 47 (64.38) | ||
| Overweight | 22 | 8 (14.55) | 14 (19.18) | ||
| Consciousness | Clear | 43 | 21 (38.18) | 22 (30.14) | 0.340 |
| Unclear | 85 | 34 (61.82) | 51 (69.86) | ||
| Caregivers | |||||
| Gender | Male | 20 | 7 (12.73) | 13 (17.81) | 0.433 |
| Female | 108 | 48 (87.27) | 60 (82.19) | ||
| Age | ≦64 years old | 114 | 48 (87.27) | 66 (90.41) | 0.582 |
| ≧65 years old | 14 | 7 (12.73) | 7 (9.59) | ||
| Education level | Less than senior high school | 77 | 36 (65.45) | 41 (56.16) | 0.288 |
| Senior high school or higher | 51 | 19 (34.55) | 32 (43.84) | ||
| Relationship with participant | Relative | 49 | 16 (29.09) | 33 (45.21) | 0.063 |
| Non-relative | 79 | 39 (70.91) | 40 (54.79) | ||
| Experiences of oral health education | Yes | 85 | 37 (67.27) | 48 (65.75) | 0.857 |
| None | 43 | 18 (32.73) | 25 (34.25) | ||