Table 1.
Characteristics of the participants in Watubaing Health Center, Nebe Village and Bangkoor Village, April-May 2019 (n = 48).
| Characteristics | Group | p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention | Control | ||||
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Age | |||||
| Late adulthood (36–45 years) | 3 | 12.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.96 |
| Early elderly (46–55 years) | 5 | 20.8 | 6 | 25 | |
| Late elderly (56–65 years) | 7 | 29.2 | 10 | 41.7 | |
| Old age (>65 years) | 9 | 37.5 | 8 | 33.3 | |
| Mean ± SD | 61.71 ± 13.063 | 61.08 ± 8.880 | |||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 4 | 16.7 | 6 | 25.0 | 1.000 |
| Female | 20 | 83.3 | 18 | 75.0 | |
| Occupation | |||||
| Does not work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.323 |
| Civil servants | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | |
| Private | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| IRT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Farmers | 24 | 100 | 23 | 95.8 | |
| Last education | |||||
| Elementary school | 24 | 100 | 23 | 0.323 | |
| Middle school | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| High school | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| S1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Income | |||||
| <1,000,000 | 24 | 100 | 23 | 95.8 | 0.323 |
| >1,000,000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | |
| Lymphoedema degree | |||||
| First degree | 10 | 41.7 | 12 | 50.0 | 0.757 |
| Degree II | 6 | 25.0 | 7 | 29.2 | |
| Degrees III | 8 | 33.3 | 5 | 20.8 | |
| Duration of elephantiasis disease | |||||
| 5–10 years | 9 | 37.5 | 4 | 16.7 | 0.130 |
| 11–20 years | 9 | 37.5 | 20 | 83.3 | |
| >20 years | 6 | 25 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mean ± SD | 14.71 ± 3.827 | 13.54 ± 2.797 | |||