Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of older people with chronic disease (N = 747)
| Variables | N (%) |
QISCT (M ± SD) |
t/F | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 60–69 | 291 (39.0) | 38.91 ± 8.99 | 2.81 | 0.061 |
| 70–79 | 296 (39.6) | 40.39 ± 9.52 | |||
| ≥ 80 | 160 (21.4) | 38.59 ± 8.43 | |||
| Gender | male | 408 (54.6) | 39.72 ± 9.06 | 0.957 | 0.339 |
| female | 339 (45.4) | 39.08 ± 9.18 | |||
| Marital status | have a spouse | 609 (81.5) | 39.57 ± 9.26 | -0.862 | 0.389 |
| no spouse | 138 (18.5) | 38.83 ± 8.45 | |||
| Educational level | primary school or below | 380 (50.8) | 39.50 ± 9.44 | 3.792 | 0.010 |
| junior high school | 196 (26.2) | 38.10 ± 9.75 | |||
| high school | 120 (16.1) | 39.98 ± 7.85 | |||
| junior college or above | 51 (6.8) | 42.71 ± 5.28 | |||
| Occupation | unemployed | 108 (14.5) | 39.03 ± 9.04 | 1.077 | 0.367 |
| farmer | 222 (29.7) | 39.96 ± 9.62 | |||
| worker | 213 (28.5) | 38.59 ± 9.63 | |||
| company worker | 113 (15.1) | 40.64 ± 8.06 | |||
| government worker | 91 (12.2) | 39.75 ± 7.78 | |||
| The number of intimate relationships | 0 | 25 (3.3) | 27.10 ± 6.50 | 13.70 | < 0.001 |
| 1–2 | 328 (43.9) | 38.50 ± 9.33 | |||
| 3–5 | 305 (40.8) | 39.60 ± 8.83 | |||
| > 5 | 89 (11.9) | 40.85 ± 9.20 | |||
| Primary caregivers | none | 65 (8.7) | 41.23 ± 8.89 | 1.176 | 0.318 |
| spouse | 305 (40.8) | 38.92 ± 8.85 | |||
| child | 308 (41.2) | 39.55 ± 9.55 | |||
| others | 69 (9.2) | 39.45 ± 8.42 | |||
| Monthly family income | < 2000 | 152 (20.3) | 38.30 ± 9.01 | 1.504 | 0.186 |
| 2000–4000 | 174 (23.3) | 40.80 ± 9.58 | |||
| 4001–6000 | 125 (16.7) | 38.94 ± 8.07 | |||
| 6001–8000 | 105 (14.1) | 39.53 ± 8.94 | |||
| 8001–10000 | 70 (9.4) | 40.14 ± 10.06 | |||
| > 10000 | 121 (16.2) | 38.88 ± 9.04 | |||
| Monthly expenses on transitional care | < 500 | 398(53.3) | 38.40 ± 9.01 | 9.773 | < 0.001 |
| 500–1000 | 196(26.2) | 38.31 ± 9.27 | |||
| > 1000 | 153(20.5) | 41.60 ± 9.53 | |||
| Medical insurance | Basic medical insurance for urban residents | 332 (44.4) | 38.19 ± 8.38 | 4.178 | 0.006 |
| Basic medical insurance for urban workers | 147 (19.7) | 41.10 ± 9.20 | |||
| New type of rural cooperative medical care | 233 (31.2) | 40.06 ± 9.78 | |||
| others | 35 (4.7) | 40.03 ± 9.62 | |||
| Diagnosis of chronic diseases | hypertension | 435 (58.2) | 39.33 ± 9.19 | 0.366 | 0.715 |
| diabetes | 274 (36.7) | 40.27 ± 9.26 | -1.930 | 0.054 | |
| stroke | 99 (13.3) | 39.91 ± 7.84 | -0.562 | 0.575 | |
| heart disease | 81 (10.8) | 40.28 ± 9.08 | -0.893 | 0.372 | |
| chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 67 (9.0) | 40.78 ± 8.78 | -1.268 | 0.205 | |