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Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of frail and non-frail subjects

From: Care recipients’ physical frailty is independently associated with subjective burden in informal caregivers in the community setting: a cross-sectional study

 

Non-frail (FFS < 3)

Frail (FFS ≥ 3)

Sig. (2-tailed)

N

27

18

 

Female gender: n (%)

9 (33.3)

13 (72.2)

0.010

Mean age: (SD)

80.5 (5.6)

82.9 (4.3)

0.122

Mean caregiver ZBI score: (SD)

13.9 (8.6)

20.7 (11.4)

0.028

Mean Katz Index (ADL) score: (SD)

10.7 (3.1)

11.1 (1.3)

0.606

Marital status: n (%)

 Single

0 (0.0)

1 (5.6)

0.225

 Married

17 (63.0)

6 (33.3)

0.053

 Widowed

3 (11.1)

10 (55.6)

0.001

 Divorced

3 (11.1)

1 (5.6)

0.532

 Incomplete

4 (14.8)

0 (0.0)

0.091

Living arrangement: n (%)

 Alone

8 (29.6)

5 (27.8)

0.896

 With family

18 (66.7)

10 (55.6)

0.463

 Other

0 (0.0)

1 (5.6)

0.225

 Incomplete

1 (3.7)

2 (11.1)

0.340

 Clinical Diagnosis of Dementia

14 (51.9)

6 (33.3)

0.230