Table 3 Comparison of frequency distribution of education, occupation, place of residence, type of stroke, marital status and organ with reduced muscle strength in the intervention and control groups
From: Investigating the effect of self-management program on stroke’s patients’ self-efficacy
Variable | Intervention group | Control group | Fisher precise test | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
Education level | Illiterate | 5 | 13.9% | 1 | 2.8% | 3.568 | 0.482 |
Elementary | 9 | 25% | 9 | 25% | |||
Elementary School | 8 | 22.2% | 12 | 33.3% | |||
High School | 11 | 30.6% | 10 | 27.8% | |||
College | 3 | 8.3% | 4 | 11.1% | |||
Occupation | Employed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.059 | 0.113 |
Self-employed | 1 | 2.8% | 7 | 19.4% | |||
House Keeper | 12 | 33.3% | 12 | 33.3% | |||
Unemployed | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |||
Worker | 2 | 5.6% | 0 | 0% | |||
Retired | 15 | 41.7% | 14 | 39.9% | |||
Others | 6 | 16.7% | 3 | 8.3% | |||
place of Residence | With their Children | 6 | 16.7% | 3 | 8.3% | 2.009 | 0.588 |
Own Home | 22 | 61.1% | 27 | 75% | |||
Renter | 6 | 16.7% | 4 | 11.1% | |||
Others | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 2.8% | |||
Type of Brain Stroke | Ischemic | 35 | 97.2% | 36 | 100 | 0.00 | 1 |
Hemorrhagic | 1 | 2.8% | 0 | 0 | |||
Marriage Status | Single | 2 | 5.6% | 3 | 8.3% | 0.619 | 1 |
Married | 26 | 72.2% | 26 | 72.2% | |||
Widowed | 7 | 19.4% | 6 | 16.7% | |||
Divorced | 1 | 2.8% | 1 | 2.8% | |||
The Muscle Involved | Right Hand | 4 | 11.1% | 5 | 13.9% | 5.075 | 0.260 |
Left Hand | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8.3% | |||
Right Leg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Left Leg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
right Hand and Leg | 13 | 36.1% | 15 | 41.7% | |||
Left Hand and Leg | 17 | 47.2% | 13 | 36.1% | |||
All four | 2 | 5.6% | 0 | 0 | |||