Quality of Life Is Influenced by Body Weight, Education, and Family Income in Adolescents with Chronic Diseases
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of the sample per group of chronic diseases.
Variables
Groups
CG
CA
DM1
OW
AS
All groups
N
100
65
31
50
30
276
Diagnostic time (M ± SD)
-
3.01 ± 3.8
6.4 ± 3.8
2.6 ± 3.1
7.0 ± 4.0
4.1 ± 4.1
Age (M ± SD)
14.1 ± 1.8
13.56 ± 2.5
14.6 ± 2.6
13.3 ± 2.0
11.5 ± 2.1
13.6 ± 2.3
Sex (n, %)
Female
57 (57.0)
28 (43.1)
17 (54.8)
25 (50.0)
09 (30.0)
136 (49.3)
Male
43 (43.0)
37 (56.9)
14 (45.2)
25 (50.0)
21 (70.0)
140 (50.7)
Marital status (% N)
Stable union
43 (43.0)
34 (52.3)
22 (71.0)
38 (76.0)
19 (63.3)
156 (56.5)
Divorced
49 (49.0)
26 (40.0)
6 (19.4)
11 (22.0)
11 (36.7)
103 (37.3)
Widower
8 (8.0)
5 (7.7)
3 (9.6)
1 (2.0)
0 (0.0)
17 (6.2)
Nutritional diagnosis (% N)
Malnutrition
2 (2.0)
8 (12.3)
2 (6.5)
-
0 (0.0)
12 (4.3)
Eutrophy
84 (84.0)
43 (66.2)
25 (80.6)
-
23 (76.7)
175 (63.4)
Overweight
14 (14.0)
14 (21.5)
4 (12.9)
50 (100)
7 (23.3)
89 (32.2)
M = mean; SD = standard deviation; CA = cancer group; DM1 = type 1 diabetes group; OW = overweight group; CG = control group; p < .001 vs all groups based on Tukey post hoc ANOVA.
