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Table 2 Relationship between characteristics of patients and self-efficacy score

From: Factors associated with self-efficacy in patients with hypertension: a cross-sectional study from Palestine

Variable

Median [Q1–3]

P valuea

Gender

 Male

42.0 [36.0–48.0]

0.319c

 Female

41.0 [32.0–48.0]

Age (year)

 Less than 65

42.0 [36.0–48.0]

0.019c

 65 or more

36.0 [27.5–51.0]

Residency

 City

42.0 [36.0–50.0]

<0.001c

 Village or refugee camp

36.0 [30.0–46.0]

Employment

 Employed

42.0 [38.0–50.25]

<0.001c

 Unemployed

39.0 [31.0–38.0]

BMI

 Normal weight

48.0 [41.0–54.0]

<0.001c

 Overweight or obese

41.0 [33.0–48.0]

Marital status

 Married

42.0 [35.25–48.0]

0.104c

 Unmarried

39.0 [29.5–52.5]

Monthly income (NIS)b

 Low (less than 2000)

39.0 [30.0–48.0]

0.056c

 Moderate to high income (≥2000)

42.0 [36.0–48.0]

Education level

 Below university education level

39.0 [32.0–47.5]

<0.001c

 University education level

43.0 [38.0–52.0]

Hypertension duration

 Less than 1 year

42.0 [31.5–51.0]

0.897d

 1–3 years

42.0 [35.25–50.0]

 4–5 years

42.0 [36.0–51.5]

 5 years or more

42.0 [33.5–48.0]

Therapy type

 Monotherapy

42.0 [34.25–49.0]

0.102c

 Multi-therapy

41.0 [32.0–48.0]

Total number of chronic diseases

 1 or less

42.0 [34.0–48.0]

0.095d

 2

42.0 [33.0–48.0]

 3 or more

23.0 [23.0–40.5]

Total number of medications

 Less than 4

42.0 [33.0–49.0]

0.594c

 4 or more

41.0 [35.0–47.0]

  1. Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease 6-Item Scale (SES6C) is range between 6 and 60, in which the higher the score, the higher the perceived self-efficacy for managing chronic diseases
  2. NIS New Israeli Shekel; Q1–Q2, lower quartile and the upper quartile
  3. aP values are bold where they are less than the significance level of 0.05
  4. b1 Israeli New Shekel equals 0.29 US dollar
  5. cStatistical significance of the differences determined by the Mann-Whitney U test
  6. dStatistical significance of the differences determined by the Kruskal-Wallis test