Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants.
Variable | Patients | Controls | p-value |
---|---|---|---|
N [%] | N [%] | ||
Sex | 0.2381 | ||
Male | 139 [46.8] | 126 [42.0] | |
Female | 158 [53.2] | 174 [58.0] | |
Marital status | <0.0011 | ||
Married | 103 [34.7] | 166 [55.3] | |
Never married | 139 [46.8] | 100 [33.3] | |
Widow/separated/divorced | 55 [18.5] | 34 [11.3] | |
Highest level of education | <0.001 | ||
None | 23 [7.7] | 12 [4] | |
Primary | 106 [35.7] | 41 [13.7] | |
Secondary | 92 [31] | 80 [26.7] | |
Tertiary | 76 [25.6] | 167 [55.7] | |
Occupation | <0.0011 | ||
Unemployed | 143 [48.1] | 74 [24.7] | |
Formal | 43 [14.5] | 144 [48] | |
Self | 11[17.4] | 82 [27.3] |
1 Chi-squared test 2 Fishers’ exact test 3 Wilcoxon rank sum test.