Table 3.
Comparison of sociodemographic data between patients with and without polypharmacy.
| N | Polypharmacy (all medications) | Polypharmacy (long-term medications only) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pw/oP | PwP | Statistics | Pw/oP | PwP | Statistics | |
| 133 | 173 | 177 | 129 | |||
| Genderc | p = 0.799Fi | p = 1.000Fi | ||||
| Female | 96 (72.2) | 122 (70.5) | 126 (71.2) | 92 (71.3) | ||
| Male | 37 (27.8) | 51 (29.5) | 51 (28.8) | 37 (28.7) | ||
| Age (Years)a | 43.0 (11.4) | 53.0 (12.7) | t(304) = −7.170, p < 0.001t | 43.2 (11.6) | 56.2 (11.2) | t(304) = −9.815, p < 0.001t |
| School yearsa | 10.9 (1.4) | 10.4 (1.3) | t(277.487) = 3.322, p = 0.001t* | 10.9 (1.4) | 10.2 (1.2) | t(289.722) = 4.599, p < 0.001t* |
| Educational levelc | X2(3) = 4.634, p = 0.201Chi | X2(3) = 3.301, p = 0.348Chi | ||||
| No training | 3 (2.3) | 3 (1.7) | 3 (1.7) | 3 (2.3) | ||
| Skilled worker | 81 (60.9) | 125 (72.3) | 113 (63.8) | 93 (72.1) | ||
| Technical college | 9 (6.8) | 10 (5.8) | 11 (6.2) | 8 (6.2) | ||
| University | 40 (30.1) | 35 (20.2) | 50 (28.2) | 25 (19.4) | ||
| Employment statusc | X2(5) = 38.139, p < 0.001Chi | X2(5) = 47.944, p < 0.001Chi | ||||
| In training | 5 (3.8) | 1 (0.6) | 6 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Employed | 70 (52.6) | 45 (26.0) | 89 (50.3) | 26 (20.2) | ||
| Unemployed | 6 (4.5) | 4 (2.3) | 9 (5.1) | 1 (0.8) | ||
| Retiree | 47 (35.3) | 121 (69.9) | 68 (38.4) | 100 (77.5) | ||
| Other | 5 (3.8) | 2 (1.2) | 5 (2.8) | 2 (1.6) | ||
| Partnershipc | p = 0.301Fi | p = 0.245Fi | ||||
| Yes | 101 (75.9) | 121 (69.9) | 133 (75.1) | 89 (69.0) | ||
| No | 32 (24.1) | 52 (30.1) | 44 (24.9) | 40 (31.0) | ||
| Place of residencec | X2(3) = 1.307, p = 0.728Chi | X2(3) = 3.081, p = 0.379Chi | ||||
| Rural community | 39 (29.3) | 46 (26.6) | 53 (29.9) | 32 (24.8) | ||
| Provincial town | 23 (17.3) | 34 (19.7) | 30 (16.9) | 27 (20.9) | ||
| Medium-sized town | 16 (12.0) | 27 (15.6) | 21 (11.9) | 22 (17.1) | ||
| City | 55 (41.4) | 66 (38.2) | 73 (41.2) | 48 (37.2) | ||
| Number of childrena | 1.2 (1.0) | 1.4 (1.0) | t(304) = −2.085, p = 0.038t | 1.2 (1.0) | 1.5 (1.1) | t(304) = −3.350, p = 0.001t |
| Number of siblingsa | 1.7 (1.7) | 1.9 (1.8) | t(304) = −0.921, p = 0.358t | 1.6 (1.7) | 2.0 (1.8) | t(304) = −1.661, p = 0.098t |
N, number of patients; PwP, patients with polypharmacy; Pw/oP, patients without polypharmacy.
aMean value (standard deviation); cnumber of patients (%); ChiChi-square test; FiFisher’s exact test; ttwo-sample two-tailed Student’s t-test; *not assuming equal variances (Levene’s test: p < 0.05).