Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of participants
| Variables | Group |
t-test | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foot reflexology | Hand reflexology | ||||
| Age (year) | Mean (SD) | 34.83 (8.31) | 32.47 (7.95) | 0.29 | 0.74* |
| Category | Number (%) | Number (%) | χ2 | ||
| Gender | Male | 12 (31.61) | 11 (28.91) | 0.07 | 0.74** |
| Female | 7 (18.43) | 8 (21.16) | |||
| Marital status | Single | 9 (23.74) | 7 (18.48) | 0.43 | 0.64** |
| Married | 10 (26.32) | 12 (31.63) | |||
| Educational level | Primary School | 6 (15.80) | 5 (13.20) | 0.36 | 0.37** |
| High school degree | 8 (21.15) | 10 (26.34) | |||
| Academic degree | 5 (18.33) | 4 (10.55) | |||
| Job status | Unemployed | 11 (28.92) | 12 (31.61) | 0.85 | 0.89** |
| Employee | 3 (7.90) | 4 (10.52) | |||
| Self-employment | 5 (13.21) | 3 (7.91) | |||
*t-test, **Chi-square test