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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Is the kidney disease quality of life-36 (KDQOL-36) a valid instrument for Chinese dialysis patients?

Characteristics

Dialysis group (n = 110)

Transplant group (n = 122)

p-value

Gender

n (%)

n (%)

0.052c

 Male

75 (68.2%)

68 (55.7%)

 

 Female

35 (31.8%)

54 (44.3%)

 

Age (Mean ± SD)

58.21 ± 15.22

51.83 ± 10.31

*< 0.001t

Marital Status, n (%)

  

0.513 c

 Not married

20 (17.3%)

27 (22.3%)

 

 Married

91 (82.7%)

94 (77.7%)

 

Kind of dialysis

   

 Haemodialysis

36 (32.7%)

  

 Peritoneal dialysis

74 (67.3%)

  

Education

  

*< 0.001c

 Primary school or below

40 (36.4%)

12 (10.1%)

 

 Secondary school but not graduated

29 (26.4%)

30 (25.2%)

 

 Secondary school

26 (23.6%)

47 (39.5%)

 

 College or above

15 (13.6%)

30 (25.2%)

 
  1. tContinuous variables were analyzed by independent-samples t test.
  2. cCategorical variables were analyzed by Pearson Chi-square test.
  3. *p < 0.05.