From: Factors associated with anxiety in family caregivers of children with chronic diseases
Variables | Caregivers | Variables | Children | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
M (SD) | n (%) | M (SD) | n (%) | ||
Sex | Sex | ||||
 Female |  | 367 (83) | Female |  | 214 (48) |
 Male | 79 (17) | Male | 232 (52) | ||
 Age | 32.23 (8.65) |  | Age (months) | 32.21 (128.81) |  |
Marital status | Months of hospitalization | 1.71 (1.22) | |||
 Married |  | 179 (40.1) |  | ||
 Cohabiting | 167 (37.4) | ||||
 Separated | 40 (9) | ||||
 Single mother | 34 (7.6) | ||||
 Divorced | 13 (2.9) | ||||
 Widowed | 6 (1.3) | ||||
 Other | 7 (1.6) | ||||
Education | Months since diagnosis | 3.5 (2.00) | |||
 Illiterate |  | 15 (3.4) |  | ||
 Primary & secondary | 281 (63) | ||||
 Preparatory | 115 (25.8) | ||||
 University | 35 (7.8) | ||||
Occupation | |||||
 Homemaker |  | 292 (65.5) |  | ||
 Employed | 60 (13.5) | ||||
 Merchant | 43 (9.6) | ||||
 Unemployed | 31 (7) | ||||
 Laborer | 15 (3.4) | ||||
 Student | 5 (1.1) | ||||
Parental role | |||||
 Mother |  | 344 (77.1) |  | ||
 Father | 75 (16.1) | ||||
 Sibling | 4 (0.9) | ||||
 Other | 26 (5.8) | ||||
Type of family | |||||
 Nuclear |  | 225 (50.4) |  | ||
 Single parent | 74 (16.6) | ||||
 Seminuclear | 68 (15.2) | ||||
 Extended | 46 (10.3) | ||||
 Other | 33 (7.4) | ||||
Family life cycle | |||||
 Small children |  | 146 (32.73) |  | ||
 School-age children | 264 (59.2) | ||||
 Adult children | 35 (7.84) | ||||
Support network | |||||
 Family |  | 371 (83.2) |  | ||
 Institutions | 50 (11.2) | ||||
 Government | 15 (3.4) | ||||
 Friends | 8 (1.8) | ||||
 Incomea | 1.62 (0.93) |  | |||
 0–3 |  | 432 (96.86) | |||
 4–7 | 13 (2.91) | ||||
 More than 8 | 1 (0.22) |