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

Table 4 Comparisons between successful group and unsuccessful group in use of care services

Care services^a	Successful group (n = 39)	Unsuccessful group (n = 37)	p value
Home help service (times/month)	3.8 ± 6.9	5.4 ± 8.2	0.304^c
Home-visit bathing service (times/month)	0.2 ± 1.0	0.2 ± 1.5	0.611^c
Home-visit nursing (times/month)	0.6 ± 2.1	0.2 ± 0.9	0.411^c
Home-visit rehabilitation (times/month)	2.0 ± 4.1	0.8 ± 1.8	0.167^c
Day care service (times/month)	2.8 ± 4.3	5.6 ± 5.6	0.010^c
Day rehabilitation service (times/month)	2.5 ± 4.7	0.8 ± 3.0	0.080^c
Short-stay service (times/month)	0.6 ± 2.0	0.9 ± 3.2	0.820^c
Rental of welfare equipment	22 (56.4)	19 (51.4)	0.658^d
Home renovation service	4 (10.3)	6 (16.2)	0.334^d
Quantity of service use (times/month)	1,0279.1 ± 7,687.0	10,634.3 ± 8,138.9	0.988^c
Degree of service use^b	41.2 ± 26.4	44.5 ± 27.8	0.659^c

^aData are presented as the number of subjects (n), with the percentage given in parenthesis, or as the mean ± SD, as appropriate
^bDegree of service use: quantity of service use/limits to benefits per month, evaluated as (%)
^cMann–Whitney U test
^dChi-square test

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