Factors influencing caregivers’ burden among family caregivers and institutionalization of in-home elderly people cared for by family caregivers

Table 2 Comparisons between the successful group and unsuccessful group in terms of elderly requiring care

Variables^a	Successful group (n = 39)	Unsuccessful group (n = 37)	p value
Male	11 (28.2)	11 (29.7)	0.884^b
Age	81.1 ± 8.3	82.0 ± 8.4	0.636^c
Requiring care level: severe (3+)	18 (46.2)	13 (35.1)	0.329^b
No. of family members	3.1 ± 1.4	3.0 ± 1.3	0.956^c
Behavioral disturbances	3.7 ± 4.4	6.0 ± 5.0	0.036^c
Underlying diseases
Dementia	11 (28.2)	19 (51.4)	0.039^b
Diabetes mellitus	8 (20.5)	4 (10.8)	0.246^b
Ischemic heart diseases	11 (28.2)	9 (24.3)	0.701^b
Cerebrovascular diseases	16 (41.0)	8 (21.6)	0.069^b
Others	31 (79.5)	33 (89.2)	0.246^b

^aData are presented as the number of subjects (n), with the percentage given in parenthesis, or as the mean ± SD, as appropriate
^bChi-square test
^cMann–Whitney U test

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