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

Table 5 Comparisons between continuing group and institutionalized group of elderly requiring care

Variables^a	Continuing group (n = 65)	Institutionalized group (n = 25)	p value	Adjusted^b p value
Male	22 (33.8)	6 (24.0)	0.366^c	0.890
Age, mean	81.1 ± 7.9	87.6 ± 6.9	<0.001^d	–
Requiring care level: severe (3+)	32 (49.2)	17 (68.0)	0.109^c	0.353
No. of family members	3.2 ± 1.5	3.6 ± 1.5	0.141^e	0.725^f
Behavioral disturbances	4.4 ± 4.3	8.0 ± 6.4	0.012^e	0.229^f
Underlying diseases
Dementia	25 (38.5)	16 (64.0)	0.029^c	0.441
Neoplasms	1 (1.5)	0 (0.0)	1.000^c	0.231
Diabetes mellitus	9 (13.8)	6 (24.0)	0.343^c	0.527
Ischemic heart diseases	15 (23.1)	7 (28.0)	0.626^c	0.964
Cerebrovascular diseases	20 (30.8)	8 (32.0)	0.910^c	0.963
Others	58 (89.2)	19 (76.0)	0.177^c	0.211

^aData are presented as the number of subjects (n), with the percentage given in parenthesis, or as the mean ± SD, as appropriate
^bMantel–Haenszel test (adjusted for age of the elderly requiring care)
^cChi-square test
^d t test
^eMann–Whitney U test
^fThe cut-off point was set as the median value

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