Table 4.

Association of depression with determinants

Variable	Division	Depression (n)		χ2/Fisher exact test	P
		No	Yes
Age of care giver	Below 47	154	29	-	<0.001*
	47 or above	48	77
Gender of care giver	Male	19	144	19.67	<0.001*
	Female	183	38
Education of care giver	High school	96	115	0.97	0.32
	Above high school	106	67
Job of care giver	Unskilled	144	86		0.23
	Skilled	19	48
	Semi professional	29	48
	Professional	10	0
Relation with patient	Spouse	9	115	15.5	<0.001*
	Nonspouse	192	68
Living with patient	Yes	77	154	8.84	0.003*
	No	125	28
Family situation	Nuclear family	86	154	2.63	0.11
	Joint family	115	29
Domestic help given by care giver	Yes	58	134	8.12	0.004*
	No	144	48
Financial help by care giver	Yes	37	155	16.94	<0.001*
	No	163	29
Transportation by care giver	Yes	96	154	5.87	0.015*
	No	105	29
Hours of care per day	Below 10 h	106	19	7.96	0.005*
	10 h or above	96	163

*P<0.05, considered as statistically significant association