Table 2

-The comfort levels of patients according to demographic characteristics (N=275).

Variables	GC	PC	EC	PSC	SCC
Gender
Female (n=108)	2.05±0.19	2.10±0.29	2.28±0.27	1.86±0.21	1.77±0.32
Male (n=167)	2.11±0.25	2.18±0.35	2.27±0.30	1.93±0.25	1.89±0.39
Significance	t= -2.248/p=0.025	t= -2.129/p=0.034	t=0.300/p=0.765	t= -2.578/p=0.010	t= -2.727/p=0.007
Family structure
Alone (n=14)	2.19±0.22^a	2.16±0.29	2.50±0.25^a	1.93±0.19	1.93±0.35
Nuclear family (n=251)	2.09±0.23^b	2.15±0.38	2.27±0.28^b	1.91±0.24	1.85±0.37
Extended family (n=10)	1.89±0.19^c	2.08±0.25	2.05±0.34^c	1.75±0.24	1.60±0.24
Significance	KW=9.613/p=0.008/a=b>c*	KW=0.8584/p=0.651	KW=11.985/p<0.002/a>b, b=c, b=a*	KW=4.528/p=0.104	KW=5.864/p=0.053
Perceived income status
Income-expenses equal (n=252)	2.10±0.23	2.16±0.34	2.27±0.28	1.91±0.24	1.87±0.36
Expenses exceed income (n=23)	2.00±0.20	2.07±0.26	2.28±0.35	1.82±0.24	1.60±0.27
Significance	u=2198.000/p=0.055	u=2352.500/p=0.134	u=2198.000/p=0.055	u=2243.000/p=0.071	u=1631.500/p<0.001
Occupational status
Working (n=94)	2.09±0.21^a	2.14±0.36^a	2.23±0.27	1.93±0.22^a	1.86±0.38^a
Not working (n=86)	2.04±0.21^b	2.08±0.29^b	2.29±0.26	1.85±0.22^b	1.76±0.34^b
Retired (n=95)	2.13±0.24^c	2.22±0.32^c	2.29±0.32	1.93±0.25^c	1.90±0.36^c
Significance	F=3.138/p=0.045/c>a=b†	F=3.890p=0.022/c>a=b†	F=1.188/p=0.306	F=3.269/p=0.040/a=c>b†	F=3.292/p=0.039/c>a=b†

Values are presented as means ± standard deviations (SDs). *Dunn-Bonferroni test, †Tukey test. Significance at p<0.0083. GC: general comfort,

PC: physical comfort, EC: environmental comfort, PSC: psychospiritual comfort, SCC: sociocultural comfort, t: independent t-test, u: Mann-Whitney-U test, F: one-way analysis of variance test, r: Pearson correlation test