Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of participants
| Characteristics | Frequency, n (%) |
χ2, P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment (n=20) |
Control (n=20) |
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| Caregiver | Patient | Caregiver | Patient | ||
| Male | 7 (70) | 6 (60) | 3 (30) | 4 (40) | 3.600, 0.113 |
| Female | 3 (30) | 4 (40) | 7 (70) | 6 (60) | |
| Relationship | |||||
| Mother | 1 (10) | 0 | 3 (30) | 0 | 14.713, 0.005 |
| Father | 5 (50) | 1 (10) | 1 (10) | 0 | |
| Daughter | 1 (10) | 4 (40) | 0 | 0 | |
| Son | 2 (20) | 2 (20) | 0 | 4 (40) | |
| Spouse | 0 | 2 (20) | 1 (10) | 1 (10) | |
| Sibling | 1 (10) | 1 (10) | 5 (50) | 5 (50) | |
| Education | |||||
| Intermediate | 2 (20) | 4 (40) | 1 (10) | 3 (30) | 2.289, 0.564 |
| Graduate | 5 (50) | 4 (40) | 4 (40 | 3 (30) | |
| Postgraduate | 3 (30) | 2 (20) | 5 (50) | 4 (40) | |
| Occupation | |||||
| Employed | 8 (80) | 0 | 8 (80) | 2 (20) | 0.683, 0.867 |
| Homemaker | 1 (10) | 0 | 1 (10) | 0 | |
| Unemployed | 1 (10) | 10 (100) | 1 (10) | 8 (10) | |
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 7 (70) | 1 (10) | 5 (50) | 8 (80) | 0.107, 1.000 |
| Unmarried | 3 (30) | 9 (90) | 5 (50) | 2 (20) | |