Research Article
Effectiveness of Counseling Provided by Primary Care Doctors and Nurses in Increasing Glaucoma Screening Rates
Table 1
Demographics of study participants.
| | Characteristics | Nurse’s | Doctor’s | Control |
Chi-square;
df | | consultation
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| | Sex | | | | | | | Women | 83 (75.5) | 75 (68.8) | 74 (83.1) | 5.421; df = 2 | 0.066 | | Men | 27 (24.5) | 34 (31.2) | 15 (16.8) | | | | Age | | | | | | | Mean ± standard deviation | 49.9 ± 12.2 | 46.2 ± 8.6 | 48.2 ± 10.0 | | | | Range | 35.0–87.0 | 35.0–68.0 | 35.0–70.0 | | 0.153a | | Median | 48.5 | 45.0 | 46.0 | | | | Education | | | | | | | Elementary | 5 (4.5) | 1 (0.9) | 3 (3.3) | | | | Secondary vocational | 8 (7.2) | 8 (7.3) | 3 (3.3) | 5.802; df = 6 | 0.446b | | High school | 33 (29.7) | 35 (32.1) | 35 (39.3) | | | | Higher | 64 (58.2) | 65 (59.6) | 48 (53.9) | | | | Marital status | | | | | | | Married | 79 (72.1) | 75 (68.8) | 65 (73.0) | 0.468; df = 2 | 0.791 | | Unmarried | 31 (27.9) | 34 (31.2) | 24 (27.0) | | | | Children | | | | | | | None | 16 (14.6) | 14 (12.8) | 16 (18.0) | 1.037; df = 2 | 0.595 | | One or more | 94 (85.4) | 95 (87.2) | 73 (82.0) | | | | Place of residence | | | | | | | Urban | 96 (87.3) | 104 (95.4) | 78 (87.6) | 5.103; df = 2 | 0.078 | | Rural | 14 (12.7) | 5 (4.6) | 11 (12.4) | | |
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Kruskal-Wallis test.
bThree cells have expected value lower than 5; minimal expected group size is 2.60.
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