Table 1.
Caregiver characteristics according to care recipient treatment group
| Caring Context | Dialysis n = 26 n (%) |
Conservative Care n = 37 n (%) |
Total n = 63 n (%) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caregivers of care recipient on dialysis | – | |||
| Facility Hemodialysis | 13 (50%) | – | 13 (21%) | |
| Home Hemodialysis | 1 (4%) | – | 1 (2%) | |
| Peritoneal Dialysis | 12 (46%) | – | 12 (19%) | |
| Median age (y) | 76 [70–79] | 76 [68–82] | 76 [68–81] | |
| Age group | 0.62 | |||
| ≤ 76 years | 15 (58%) | 19 (51%) | 34 (54%) | |
| > 76 years | 11 (42%) | 18 (49%) | 29 (46%) | |
| Gender | 0.56 | |||
| Males | 6 (23%) | 11 (30%) | 17 (27%) | |
| Females | 20 (77%) | 26 (70%) | 46 (73%) | |
| Health System | 0.05* | |||
| United Kingdom | 9 (35%) | 5 (14%) | 14 (22%) | |
| Australia | 17 (65%) | 32 (86%) | 49 (78%) | |
| Education | 0.68 | |||
| Primary school | 5 (19%) | 10 (27%) | 15 (24%) | |
| Some high school | 7 (27%) | 11 (30%) | 18 (28%) | |
| Completed high school | 6 (23%) | 7 (19%) | 13 (21%) | |
| Completed diploma | 3 (12%) | 6 (16%) | 9 (14%) | |
| Completed university degree | 5 (19%) | 3 (8%) | 8 (13%) | |
| Private health insurance | 0.90 | |||
| Yes | 17 (65%) | 25 (67%) | 42 (67%) | |
| No | 8 (31%) | 11 (30%) | 19 (30%) | |
| Unknown | 1 (4%) | 1 (3%) | 2 (3%) | |
| Care recipient length of kidney disease | 0.006* | |||
| < 1 year | 2 (8%) | – | 2 (3%) | |
| 1–2 years | 5 (19%) | – | 5 (8%) | |
| > 2 years | 19 (73%) | 34 (100%) | 53 (88%) | |
| Length of care | 0.23 | |||
| 0–2 years | 7 (28%) | 5 (15%) | 12 (21%) | |
| > 2 years | 18 (72%) | 28 (85%) | 46 (79%) | |
| Type of relationship | 0.01* | |||
| Spouse/Partner | 19 (73%) | 20 (63%) | 39 (67%) | |
| Child | – | 9 (28%) | 9 (16%) | |
| Sibling | 1 (4%) | – | 1 (1%) | |
| Other | 6 (23%) | 3 (9%) | 9 (16%) |
* p < 0.05, statistical significance