Benefits Conferred by Peer-Support Nursing Intervention to Pulmonary Function and Quality of Life in Nonsmoking Patients with COPD

Table 1

The general information of the two groups.

Group	Gender		Age	Course of disease
	Male	Female		2–5 years	5–10 years	More than 10 years
Observation group (n = 50)	28	22	45.36 ± 15.68	6	24	20
Control group (n = 50)	27	23	46.25 ± 14.65	5	23	22
χ^2/t value	0.201		0.293	0.207
value	0.841		0.770	0.901