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Global Health Econ Sustain Elderly people with dementia

Table 1. (Continued)
Attributes Hong Kong (N=164) Japan (N=166) Singapore (N=233) Statistical comparisons
n % n % N % χ 2 df p
Do you have a habit of smoking? 7.645 4 0.105
Yes 4 2.4 11 6.7 15 6.4
No 151 92.1 143 87.7 213 91.4
Ex-smoker 9 5.5 9 5.5 5 2.1
Do you have a habit of drinking? 81.929 4 0.000***
Yes 6 3.7 48 29.1 7 3.0
No 154 93.9 113 68.5 223 95.7
Ex-drinker 4 2.4 4 2.4 3 1.3
Received service in either day care hospital, day 212.750 2 0.000***
care center, residential respite service, day respite
service, in-home cleaning and maintenance
support service, in-home occupational therapy
and physiotherapy service and escorting service
and other
Yes 124 75.6 113 68.1 23 9.9
No 40 24.4 53 31.9 210 90.1
Receiving day care at hospital 307.483 2 0.000***
Yes 6 3.8 69 75.0 0 0.0
No 152 96.2 23 25.0 233 100.0
Receiving day care at care center 134.280 2 0.000***
Yes 96 59.3 31 40.8 14 6.0
No 66 40.7 45 59.2 219 94.0
Receiving residential respite service 65.136 2 0.000***
Yes 0 0.0 9 16.4 0 0.0
No 157 100.0 46 83.6 233 100.0
Receiving ray respite service 1.141 1 0.285
Yes 4 2.5 1 7.7 0 0.0
No 155 97.5 12 92.3 0 0.0
Receiving in-home cleaning and maintenance 63.398 2 0.000***
support service
Yes 5 3.1 7 28.0 0 0.0
No 154 96.9 18 72.0 233 100.0
Receiving in-home OT and PT service 27.647 1 0.000***
Yes 18 11.3 0 0.0 0 0.0
No 141 88.7 0 0.0 233 100.0
Receiving escorting service 12.044 1 0.001**
Yes 8 5.1 0 0.0 0 0.0
No 150 94.9 0 0.0 233 100.0
Receiving others service 161.704 2 0.000***
Yes 12 7.6 15 100.0 9 3.9
No 146 92.4 0 0.0 224 96.1
Overall helpful of the service (s) 252.465 2 0.000***
Yes 118 88.7 105 91.3 18 11.0
No 15 11.3 10 8.7 145 89.0
Notes: *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.
Abbreviations: df: Degree of freedom; PT: Physical therapist; PWD: Patient with dementia; OT: Occupational therapist.

Volume 2 Issue 1 (2024) 7 https://doi.org/10.36922/ghes.1954