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Table 1 Analysis of factors influencing PGC-MS: metric scale

From: Quality of life in elderly people at the start of using in-home care

Variable

Mean value

Standard deviation

Correlation function (a)

Significance probability (P/b)

Age

78.13

5.175

0.188

0.008**

Degree of required care

2.65

1.207

−0.052

0.464

Years of education

10.95

2.392

−0.154

0.029*

FIM

84.73

20.412

0.124

0.080

  1. Mean value and standard deviation of the degree for required care and FIM indicate median and inter-quartile range.
  2. FIM functional independence measure.
  3. Spearman’s ρ was used for correlation function (a), and the two-tailed test was used for significance probability (b).
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