Table 2.
The descriptive statistics of the care recipients characteristics.
| Variable | All subjects (n = 3,758) |
Longer hours (n = 1,715) |
Shorter hours (n = 2,043) |
P value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | |||
| Age | Mean ± SD | 83.8 ± 7.8 | 83.6 ± 8.1 | 83.9 ± 7.6 | 0.14 | |||
| Sex | Male | 1,343 | (35.7) | 692 | (40.3) | 651 | (31.9) | <0.001 |
| Female | 2,415 | (64.3) | 1023 | (59.7) | 1,392 | (68.1) | ||
| Care level | Care-required 1 | 893 | (23.8) | 196 | (11.4) | 697 | (34.1) | <0.001 |
| Care-required 2 | 1,096 | (29.2) | 388 | (22.6) | 708 | (34.7) | ||
| Care-required 3 | 806 | (21.5) | 420 | (24.5) | 386 | (18.9) | ||
| Care-required 4 | 561 | (14.9) | 391 | (22.8) | 170 | (8.3) | ||
| Care-required 5 | 402 | (10.7) | 320 | (18.7) | 82 | (4.0) | ||
| The primary disease that caused the disability | Frailty | 537 | (14.3) | 188 | (11.1) | 349 | (17.1) | <0.001 |
| Stroke | 950 | (25.3) | 498 | (29.0) | 452 | (22.1) | ||
| Heart disease | 115 | (3.1) | 54 | (3.1) | 61 | (3.0) | ||
| Respiratory disease | 81 | (2.2) | 38 | (2.2) | 43 | (2.1) | ||
| Dementia | 788 | (21.0) | 373 | (21.7) | 415 | (20.3) | ||
| Fracture or fall | 398 | (10.6) | 172 | (10.0) | 226 | (11.1) | ||
| Other diseases | 889 | (23.7) | 392 | (22.9) | 497 | (24.3) | ||
| Educationa | Low | 2,019 | (53.7) | 860 | (50.2) | 1,159 | (56.7) | <0.001 |
| Middle | 1,092 | (29.1) | 545 | (31.8) | 547 | (26.8) | ||
| High | 266 | (7.1) | 143 | (8.3) | 123 | (6.0) | ||
| Missing | 381 | (10.1) | 167 | (9.7) | 214 | (10.5) | ||
*Difference between “longer hours" and "shorter hours"; p values from χ2 test (categorical variables) or t-test (continuous variables).
a
Low: graduated junior high school middle: graduated the high school high: Bachelor, Master, Doctor, professional school, and technical college.