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

Table 7

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

	NCL						BSI
	Good nutrition		Moderate risk		High risk		Range	Mean ± SD
	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
Gender
Male 𝑁=112	24	21.4	16	14.3	72	64.3	8–20	15.4±4.4
Female 𝑁=88	28	31.8	20	22.7	40	45.5	9–20	16.9±3.4
𝑋^2	3.56						4.35
𝑃	0.16						0.22