Table 2.
Demographic Data of the Intervention and Control Group Patients
| Demographic variables | Variable | N (%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental | Control | |||
| Gender | Male | 18 (60.0) | 18 (60.0) | 1.00 |
| Female | 12 (40.0) | 12 (40.0) | ||
| Marital status | Single | 11 (36.7) | 10 (33.3) | 0.79 |
| Married | 19 (63.7) | 20 (66.7) | ||
| Education | Diploma and low literate | 21 (70.0) | 23 (76.7) | 0.56 |
| Collegiate | 9 (30.0) | 7 (23.3) | ||
| The income per month | Less than 500 thousand Rials | 20 (66.7) | 18 (60.0) | 0.72 |
| 500 to 1 million | 6 (20.0) | 8 (26.7) | ||
| More than 1 million | 4 (13.3) | 4 (13.3) | ||
| Family support | Low | 19 (63.3) | 4 (13.3) | 0.73 |
| Mean | 7 (23.3) | 17 (56.7) | ||
| alot | 4 (13.3) | 9 (30.0) | ||
| Drug addiction | Yes | 18 (60.0) | 20 (66.7) | 0.59 |
| No | 12 (40.0) | 10 (33.3) | ||
| Age(M±SD) | 70.03 (11.42) | 68.33 (11.83) | 0.57 | |