Table 1.
Demographic data for caregivers of patients with severe mental illness and patients with cardiac illness (ischemic cardiac disease complicated with chronic heart failure).
|
Caregivers of patients with chronic severe mental illness (N = 70) |
Caregivers of patients with cardiac illness (N = 70) |
Test of significance† | p* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. | % | N. | % | |||
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 23 | 32.9 | 21 | 30.0 | χ2 = 0.133 | 0.716 |
| Female | 47 | 67.1 | 49 | 70.0 | ||
| Marital status | ||||||
| Single | 1 | 1.4 | 2 | 2.9 | χ2 = 2.25 | pMC = 0.611 |
| Married | 61 | 87.1 | 58 | 82.9 | ||
| Divorced | 1 | 1.4 | 4 | 5.7 | ||
| Widowed | 7 | 10.0 | 6 | 8.6 | ||
| Level of education | ||||||
| Illiterate | 21 | 30.0 | 13 | 18.6 | χ2 = 2.54 | 0.281 |
| χ2 = 104.8* | P < 001 | |||||
| School | 29 | 41.4 | 35 | 50.0 | ||
| High school | 20 | 28.6 | 22 | 31.4 | ||
| Caregiver relation | ||||||
| Mother | 27 | 38.6 | 0 | 0.0 | χ2 = 104.802* | <0.001* |
| Father | 9 | 12.9 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Sister | 11 | 15.7 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Brother | 11 | 15.7 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Wife | 9 | 12.9 | 25 | 35.7 | ||
| Daughter | 0 | 0.0 | 24 | 34.3 | ||
| Husband | 3 | 4.3 | 8 | 11.4 | ||
| Son | 0 | 0.0 | 13 | 18.6 | ||
| Employment | ||||||
| Employed | 37 | 52.9 | 30 | 42.9 | χ2 = 1.4 | 0.236 |
| Unemployed | 33 | 47.1 | 40 | 57.1 | ||
| Duration of illness | 5.76± 2.71 | 5.51 ± 3.42 | U = 2,196 | 0.285 | ||
| Age, years | 46.06 ±9.55 | 43.37 ±9.28 | t = 1.687 | 0.094 | ||
†
Both arms were balanced in terms of age, duration of illness of patients, sex ratio, marital status, and employment. χ2, chi-squared test; MC, Monte Carlo; t, Student's t test; U, Mann–Whitney test.
*
Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05.