Research Article
Determination of Care Burden of Caregivers of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Turkey
Table 3
ZCBI mean scores ± SD as a function of demographic characteristics of caregivers and summary of statistical comparisons.
| Features | X ± SD | Test and value |
| Age | 18–27 | 22.70 ± 8.26 | | 28–37 | 24.36 ± 9.78 | KW = 4.97 | 38 or above | 27.72 ± 9.73 | | Gender | Female | 24.88 ± 9.50 | | Male | 26.50 ± 9.56 | | Education level | Literate | 28.58 ± 6.69 | | Primary school | 26.73 ± 10.37 | KW = 6.01 | High school | 24.45 ± 9.22 | | University | 21.91 ± 8.43 | | Occupation | Working | 23.68 ± 7.21 | | Non-working | 26.38 ± 10.45 | | Working status | Worker | 23.89 ± 7.57 | | Officer | 23.38 ± 6.93 | | Marital status | Married | 26.39 ± 9.30 | MW-U = 672.00 | Single | 23.03 ± 9.75 | | Having children | Yes | 27.29 ± 9.41 | | No | 21.80 ± 8.71 | | Number of children () | | | 1-2 | 28.22 ± 10.95 | | 3-4 | 26.13 ± 9.96 | KW = 0.78 | 5 and above | 27.68 ± 6.11 | | Social insurance | Green card | 27.55 ± 11.45 | | Social insurance | 23.92 ± 7.77 | KW = 2.05 | Pension fund | 27.61 ± 10.71 | | Self-employed | 25.33 ± 12.59 | | The degree of proximity to patient | | | Parents | 24.82 ± 8.03 | | Spouse | 27.16 ± 10.62 | KW = 0.60 | Son/daughter | 26.68 ± 9.89 | | Sibling | 22.18 ± 9.50 | | Living situations with patients | | | Yes | 25.07 ± 9.74 | MW-U = 724.00 | No | 26.56 ± 8.85 | | The number of family members living together | | | 2-3 | 25.40 ± 8.77 | KW = 0.19 | 4-5 | 26.37 ± 11.02 | | 6 and above | 24.12 ± 7.99 | | Ownership of any disease | | | Yes | 29.23 ± 8.28 | MW-U = 419.50 | No | 24.58 ± 9.60 | |
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