Table 1.
Baseline sociodemographic characteristics of the sample as frequency and percentage (N=124)
| Variable | Experimental group (n=64) | Control group (n=60) |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f | % | f | % | ||
| Age in years | 0.662 | ||||
| ≥60–70 | 45 | 42.1 | 40 | 38.8 | |
| >70 | 19 | 17.8 | 20 | 19.4 | |
| Gender | 0.214 | ||||
| Male | 27 | 42.2 | 32 | 53.3 | |
| Female | 37 | 57.8 | 28 | 46.7 | |
| Education | 0.533 | ||||
| Illiterate | 10 | 9.3 | 11 | 10.7 | |
| ≤7th standard | 16 | 15 | 16 | 15.5 | |
| >7th standard-PUC | 30 | 28 | 30 | 29.1 | |
| Degree | 8 | 7.5 | 3 | 2.9 | |
| Occupation | 0.197 | ||||
| Professional | 5 | 4.7 | 4 | 3.9 | |
| Nonprofessional | 6 | 5.6 | 9 | 8.7 | |
| Business | 2 | 1.9 | 7 | 6.8 | |
| Retired | 12 | 11.2 | 5 | 4.9 | |
| Cooli | 13 | 12.1 | 8 | 7.8 | |
| Not working | 26 | 24.3 | 27 | 26.2 | |
| Living with spouse | 0.887 | ||||
| Yes | 56 | 52.3 | 53 | 51.5 | |
| No | 8 | 7.5 | 7 | 6.8 | |
| Annual income of the family | 0.938 | ||||
| <12,000 | 34 | 31.8 | 34 | 33 | |
| 12,000–1 lakh | 20 | 18.7 | 18 | 17.5 | |
| >1–2.5 lakhs | 5 | 4.7 | 5 | 4.9 | |
| >2.5 lakh | 5 | 4.7 | 3 | 2.9 | |
| Finance for the treatment | 0.413 | ||||
| Children | 29 | 27.1 | 32 | 31.1 | |
| Own | 25 | 23.4 | 23 | 22.3 | |
| Spouse | 10 | 9.3 | 5 | 4.9 | |
Note: N=124, p<0.05.
Abbreviation: PUC, Pre University College.