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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the participants and associated with the perspectives on healthy aging

From: Relationship between physical activity and perceptions of ageing from the perspective of healthy ageing among older people with frailty with chronic disease: a cross-sectional study

Items	N	%	Mean	SD	r	F	t	p value
Age			75.71	7.84	-0.24			< 0.001
Chronic conditions			1.45	0.69	-0.06			0.296
Hypertension	197	63.14%
Diabetes	56	17.95%
Hyperlipidemia	38	12.18%
Cardiovascular disease	45	14.42%
Osteoarthritis	43	13.78%
Digestive diseases	23	7.37%
Urinary system disease	12	3.85%
Stroke	11	3.53%
Nervous system disease	8	2.56%
Lung disease	6	1.92%
Other	8	2.56%
BMI						1.41		0.247
Underweight (< 18.5)	6	1.9%
Healthy Weight (18.5 ~ 24)	119	38.1%
Overweight (> 24)	187	59.9%
ADL			90.05	7.84	0.30			< 0.001
Frailty index
Pre-frailty	165	52.9%					5.35	< 0.001
Frailty	147	47.1%					5.35	< 0.001
Gender
Female	218	69.9%					-0.21	0.833
Male	94	30.1%					-0.21	0.833
Education
Junior high school & below	259	83.0%					-3.02	0.003
Senior school & above	53	17.0%					-3.02	0.003
Occupation
Yes	75	24.0%					-0.49	0.627
No	237	76.0%					-0.49
Religion
Yes	299	95.8%					0.44	0.663
No	13	4.20%						0.663
Marital status
Single/ Widowed/ Divorced	143	45.8%					-2.36	0.019
Married	169	54.2%						0.019
Household income
NT 20,000 & below (Low income)	213	68.3%					-0.63	0.533
NT 20,000 & above	99	31.7%						0.533
Smoking
Yes	13	4.20%					-0.18	0.854
No	299	95.8%						0.854
Drinking
Yes	6	1.90%					-0.11	0.911
No	306	98.1%						0.911
Living patterns
Children	172	55.1%
Spouse	86	27.6%				2.96		0.053
Living alone	54	17.3%

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