Effects of a Nursing Intervention Based on a Solution-Focused Approach on Renal Transplant Recipients’ Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life

Table 2

Comparison of baseline data of the two groups of renal transplant recipients.

Items	Intervention group (n = 37)	Control group (n = 34)	T or χ^2	value
Age (years)	38.32 ± 9.83	40.97 ± 10.37	−1.103	0.274
Gender
Male	23 (62.16)	22 (64.71)	0.049	0.824
Female	14 (37.84)	12 (35.29)
Marriage			0.049^a	0.825
Unmarried	5 (13.51)	4 (11.76)
Married	32 (86.49)	30 (88.24)
Divorced	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)
Widowed	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)
Education degree			3.026^a	0.390
Primary school and below	7 (18.92)	2 (5.89)
Junior middle school	10 (27.02)	13(38.24)
High school or junior college	7 (18.92)	7 (20.58)
Bachelor degree or above	13 (35.14)	12 (35.29)
Dialysis method			1.254^a	0.685
Haemodialysis	27 (72.97)	28 (82.35)
Peritoneal dialysis	9 (24.33)	5 (14.71)
No dialysis	1 (2.70)	1(2.90)
Duration of dialysis (year)			3.634^a	0.313
0–1	16 (43.24)	11 (32.36)
1–3	16 (43.24)	16 (47.05)
3–5	3 (8.11)	1 (2.94)
>5	2 (5.41)	6 (17.65)
BMI (kg/m^2)	22.00 ± 4.92	22.71 ± 2.29	−0.768	0.445
CCR	7.81 ± 4.11	7.54 ± 2.41	0.329	0.743

Note. Data are expressed as n (%) or the mean ± standard deviation. ^ais Fisher’s exact probability. BMI: body mass index. CCR: endogenous creatinine clearance.