Table 1 Descriptive characteristic of the 195 participants of the study
Gender | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total, n = 195 | Male, n = 97 | Female, n = 98 | p-valuea | ||
Age, years | 67.2 (15.2)b | 65.1 (16.2) | 69.2 (13.9) | 0.054 | |
Age group | ≥65 | 61.5 | 58.8 | 64.3 | 0.464 |
Family Status | married | 73.8 | 91.8 | 56.1 | <0.001 |
not married, divorced, widowed | 26.2 | 8.2 | 43.9 | ||
Religion | Christian Orthodox | 98.5 | 96.9 | 100.0 | 0.121 |
RFI-SRB scale (range: 3–60) | 35.2 (19.6) | 36.1 (20.1) | 34.4 (19.1) | 0.798 | |
SOC scale (range: 82–194) | 141.1 (25.2) | 145.7 (26.6) | 136.5 (23.1) | 0.022 | |
Comprehensible | 50.4 (10.9) | 52.9 (11.2) | 48.0 (10.2) | 0.002 | |
Manageable | 48.7 (10.4) | 47.5 (9.9) | 49.9 (10.7) | 0.103 | |
Meaningful | 42.0 (8.2) | 42.9 (8.6) | 41.0 (7.6) | 0.107 | |
BDI scale (range: 1–29) | 9.6 (5.1) | 8.8 (5.1) | 10.4 (5.1) | 0.005 | |
Minimal depression symptoms | 59.0 | 66.0 | 52.0 | ||
Mild | 36.9 | 30.9 | 42.9 | 0.138 | |
Moderate | 4.1 | 3.1 | 5.1 | ||
Morbidity, conditions | |||||
Hypertension | 70.3 | 60.8 | 79.6 | 0.005 | |
Diabetes mellitus | 18.5 | 20.6 | 16.3 | 0.440 | |
Cerebrovascular event | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.621 | |
Congestive heart failure | 4.1 | 2.1 | 6.1 | 0.279 | |
Myocardial Infarction | 3.1 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 0.118 | |
Multimorbidity | |||||
none condition | 29.7 | 39.2 | 20.4 | 0.002 | |
one | 47.2 | 35.1 | 59.2 | ||
two or more | 23.1 | 25.8 | 20.4 | ||