Research Article
Changes in Caregivers Lifestyle after Severe Acquired Brain Injury: A Preliminary Investigation
Table 3
Time spent in caregiving and related working and financial consequences.
| | Primary Caregivers | Secondary Caregivers | Test | p |
| Caregiving consequences | No consequence | 149 | 58 | χ2 = 5.3920 | n.s. | (58.7%) | (72.5%) | Work temporarily stopped | 95 | 21 | (37.4%) | (26.3%) | Work definitively stopped | 10 | 1 | (3.9%) | (1.2%) |
| Financial problems | 123 | 33 | χ2 = 1.3792 | n.s. | (47.1%) | (39.8%) |
| Time spent in caregiving | Every day and night | 20 | 1 | χ2 = 88.6949 | p<0.01 | (7.6%) | (1.2%) | All day, but not night | 93 | 1 | (35.5%) | (1.2%) | Every half day | 83 | 14 | (31.7%) | (16.7%) | Few hours a day | 27 | 24 | (10.3%) | (28.6%) | Several hours a week | 39 | 44 | (14.9%) | (52.4%) |
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