Demographics of the sample are presented in Table 1. The age of respondents
was 53.44 ± 13.19 years (mean ± SD), and ranged from 17
to 59 years. About 64%of subjects were male, and about half of them
were employed. Most of the respondents were married (85.4%) and unemployed
(71.0%). More than 73% of them perceived their health as falling
with the range from very poor to average, and their admission
duration in hospital was 69.28 ± 83.12 months.
Correlation analysis supported the relationships among the study
variables in the proposed model, as reported in Table 2. Social support