Research Article

Predictors of Compliance to Gluten-Free Diet in Children with Celiac Disease

Table 3

Compliance in relation to parents’ attitude.

QuestionResponseCompliant (%)Noncompliant (%) value

Finds burden on budgetHeavily17 (19.32)22 (47.83)<0.001
Fairly43 (48.86)21 (45.65)
Hardly28 (31.82)3 (6.52)

Feels burden on selfY18 (20.45)25 (54.35)<0.001
N70 (79.55)21 (45.65)

Cooks food once or more than once>Once81 (92.05)26 (56.52)<0.001
Once7 (7.95)20 (43.48)

In contact with other parents of children with celiac diseaseY30 (34.09)6 (13.04)0.016
N58 (65.91)40 (86.96)