Nutritional and Functional Assessment of Hospitalized Elderly: Impact of Sociodemographic Variables

Table 6

Association between nutritional checklist (NCL) and Barthel self-care index (BSI) with education.

	NCL						BSI
	Good nutrition		Moderate risk		High risk		Range	Mean ± SD
	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
Education
Illiterate 𝑁=168	52	31	28	16.7	88	52.4	8–20	15.97±3.89
Educated 𝑁=32	0	0	8	25	24	75	8–20	16.6±4.9
𝑋^2	6.7						0.85
𝑃	0.035						0.56