From: Burden experienced by community health volunteers in Taiwan: a survey
Characteristic | Descriptive statistic |
---|---|
% Female participants | 84.3% (n = 366) |
Mean age (±SD)* [years] | 59.1 (±10.8) |
% Highest level of education | Â |
  Elementary school or less | 34.1% (n = 145) |
  Junior high school | 26.1% (n = 111) |
  Senior high school | 26.4% (n = 112) |
  College, university, or postgraduate | 13.4% (n = 57) |
% Religion | Â |
  Buddhist | 48.7% (n = 206) |
  Taoist | 31.9% (n = 135) |
  Other | 19.4% (n = 82) |
% Language (multiple answers possible) | Â |
  Mandarin | 92.6% (n = 389) |
  Holo | 80.2% (n = 337) |
  Hakka | 30.2% (n = 127) |
  Other | 3.1% (n = 13) |
% Current occupation | Â |
  Employed | 31.1% (n = 129) |
  Housework | 51.1% (n = 212) |
  Unemployed | 7.7% (n = 32) |
  Retired | 10.1% (n = 42) |
% Married/cohabited | 81.0% (n = 341) |
% With enough or sufficient economic resources | 94.3% (n = 390) |
% Current condition of health compared to people of similar age | |
  Excellent | 16.1% (n = 69) |
  Very good | 45.6% (n = 195) |
  Good | 35.5% (n = 152) |
  Fair | 2.6% (n = 11) |
  Poor | 0.2% (n = 1) |
Mean years lived in this community (±SD) | 29.1 (±17.8) |
% County of residence | Â |
  New Taipei | 36.8% (n = 160) |
  Taoyuan | 50.6% (n = 220) |
  Hsinchu | 12.6% (n = 55) |
% Serving a village rather than a city | 51.0% (n = 222) |
Median years (IQR)** spent working as a community health volunteer | 4 (2.0, 6.3) |
Median hours per week (IQR) volunteering | 6.0 (4.0, 8.0) |
Median number of people (IQR) serviced per week | 30 (16, 60) |
% CHPDC*** | Â |
  Community based | 52.6% (n = 229) |
  Public Health Centre based | 11.3% (n = 49) |
  Hospital based | 36.1% (n = 157) |
% Volunteering job | Â |
  Fundamental | 52.2% (n = 210) |
  Cadre | 17.7% (n = 71) |
  Leader | 15.7% (n = 63) |
  Chief (oversees volunteer services) | 14.4% (n = 58) |
% Time committed to other volunteering services | |
  One service | 38.9% (n = 167) |
  Two services | 25.9% (n = 111) |
  hree or more services | 20.7% (n = 89) |
Median years spent in all other voluntary services except community health promotion (IQR) | 5 (3, 8) |
Median total time in years spent in voluntary service (IQR) | 8 (4.5, 14) |
% Planning to stay on as a community health promotion volunteer | |
  Very unlikely | 0.3% (n = 1) |
  Unlikely | 0.5% (n = 2) |
  Neutral | 4.1% (n = 16) |
  Likely | 54.6% (n = 214) |
  Very likely | 40.6% (n = 159) |