Table 3 presents the comparison of patients’ self-care
behavior between patients’ different categorical characteristics and between family caregivers’ characteristics, respectively. Results indicate that the difference in patients’ religious beliefs, specified duration, regularly taking medication, history of other diseases, side effect experiences, history of emergency ward visits, and history of hospitalization were related to the patients’ self-care behavior scale scores. However, the comparison did not find any significant differences in patients’ self-care behavior scores between different family caregivers’ categorical characteristics (see Table 3).