Factors Influencing Burden in Spouse-Caregivers of Patients with Chronic-Acquired Brain Injury

Table 1

Clinical and demographical characteristics of ABI patients.

	Variables
Demographical	Age (years)
	Sex (% f)	29% female
	Educational qualification	37% high school/17% university
	Job employment (Y/N)	71% No
Clinical	Barthel Index at admission
	Barthel Index at discharge
	ABI phenotype	(i) 57% vascular; (ii) 43% traumatic
	Brain lesion localization	(i) 44% frontal lobe; (ii) 34% temporal lobe; (iii) 7% parietal lobe; (iv) 15% occipital lobe
	Hemispheric lesion (% left)	46% left