Effects of Orem’s Self-Care Model on the Life Quality of Elderly Patients with Hip Fractures

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of patients in the two groups.

	Variables	Exp.	Con.	value
Gender	M.	24	27	0.551
	F.	41	38
Age		77.6 ± 4.8	76.6 ± 4.1	0.197
BMI		23.9 ± 2.9	24.1 ± 3.6	0.120
Fracture type	Neck.	30	29	0.878
	Inter.	35	36

Exp., experiment group; Cont., control group; M., male; F., female; BMI, body mass index; Neck., femoral neck fractures; Inter., femoral intertrochanteric fractures.