The relationship between the spiritual attitude of the family caregivers of older patients with stroke and their burden

Figures & data

Table 1 The relationship between caregiving burden and the demographic characteristics of the participants

Characteristic	N	Percentage	P-value
Gender
Male	45	11.1	<0.001
Female	362	88.9	–
Age, years
<20	10	2.5	<0.01
20–40	185	70	–
>40	122	27.5	–
Level of education
High school education or less	393	96.6	0.23
University education	14	3.4	–
Marital status
Married	221	54.3	<0.01
Single	186	45.7	–
Place of residence
Own home	274	67.3	<0.001
Parents’ home	133	2.7	–
Duration of caregiving, years
<5	336	82.6	<0.001
6–10	60	14.7	–
>10	11	2.7	–
Occupation
Self-employed	54	13.2	<0.01
Housewife	267	65.6	–
Employee	86	21.1	–

Table 2 The descriptive statistics

Burden	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Standard deviation
Total score of spiritual attitude	99.00	152.00	108.77	6.20
Time dependence burden	7.00	19.00	12.17	3.33
Developmental burden	2.00	11.00	5.38	2.08
Physical burden	2.00	12.00	4.13	2.47
Social burden	1.00	20.00	3.89	4.65
Emotional burden	1.00	10.00	2.14	2.37
Total score of burden	18.00	69.00	28.00	12.75

Table 3 The correlation coefficients for relationship between burden and spiritual attitude

Variable	Index
Predictive	Criterion	Correlation coefficient	Significance
Spiritual attitude	Time dependence burden	0.38	0.001
	Developmental burden	0.43	0.004
	Physical burden	0.53	0.009
	Social burden	0.35	0.004
	Emotional burden	0.51	0.001
	Total score of burden	0.46	0.001

Table 4 Predicting burden by the spiritual attitude of the family caregivers of older patients with stroke

Predictive variable				Index
				Coefficient
R	RS	F significance	SE	B	β	t	Significance
–	–	–	11.45	42.71	–	3.062	0.001
0.49	0.24	14.752	0.103	0.461	0.455	4.079	0.003

Abbreviations: RS, residual sum; SE, standard error.