From: Factors associated with anxiety in family caregivers of children with chronic diseases
Variables | Caregivers | Variables | Children | ||
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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) |