Table 2 Baseline characteristics of the patients and caregivers
Characteristic | Patients | Caregivers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Control (N = 159) | Intervention (N = 162) | p value1 | Control (N = 109) | Intervention (N = 126) | p value1 | |
Patient dead within six months | 40% | 43% | 0.638 | NA | NA | NA |
Average age (years) | 64 | 66 | 0.4551 | 61 | 60 | 0.3991 |
Employed2 | 24% | 25% | 0.746 | 46% | 45% | 0.923 |
Disability pension2 | 13% | 9% | 0.351 | < 5% | 5% | 0.085 |
Elderly pension2 | 53% | 57% | 0.509 | 44% | 38% | 0.358 |
Women | 51% | 51% | 0.998 | 65% | 65% | 0.993 |
Married/cohabiting | 59% | 65% | 0.315 | 84% | 94% | 0.022 |
Average number of children at home | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.551 | 0.39 | 0.29 | 0.4421 |
Immigrant/Descendants | 11% | 5% | 0.057 | 4% | 6% | 0.497 |
Education3: | ||||||
Basic school | 22% | 22% | 0.965 | 21% | 22% | 0.920 |
High school | 4% | 6% | 0.346 | 6% | 3% | 0.423 |
Short-cycle higher education | 42% | 42% | 0.951 | 38% | 39% | 0.915 |
Medium-cycle higher education | 26% | 17% | 0.086 | 25% | 18% | 0.177 |
Long-cycle higher and research education | 6% | 12% | 0.061 | 10% | 18% | 0.077 |