Table 2.
Demographic characteristics distribution of the study population, stratified by island of residence and home garden use
| Funafuti (n = 630) |
Outlying islands (n = 394) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
No home garden (n = 467)
|
Home garden users (n = 163)
|
P-value
|
No home garden (n = 238)
|
Home garden users (n = 156)
|
P-value
|
|
Baseline characteristics
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Age in years, mean SD) |
38.1 (14.6) |
40.9 (16.7) |
0.042 |
45.6 (15.8) |
46.5 (17.5) |
0.623 |
| Female, n (%) |
251 (53.7) |
93 (57.1) |
0.523 |
121 (50.8) |
84 (53.8) |
0.631 |
| Income in AU$, mean (SD) |
248.3 (636.1) |
167.1 (376.4) |
0.127 |
108.3 (210.0) |
126.7 (227.6) |
0.410 |
| Education at college or above (%) |
99 (21.3) |
30 (18.4) |
0.502 |
17 (7.1) |
13 (8.3) |
0.809 |
| BMI, mean (SD) |
35.10 (8.48) |
33.95 (7.77) |
0.128 |
34.91 (7.44) |
35.10 (8.10) |
0.807 |
| Non-communicable disease diagnosis (%) |
81 (17.4) |
29 (17.8) |
1.000 |
75 (31.5) |
47 (30.1) |
0.858 |
| Smoking (%) |
|
|
0.066 |
|
|
0.776 |
|
Daily
|
128 (27.5) |
30 (18.4) |
|
72 (30.3) |
51 (32.7) |
|
|
Occasional
|
29 (6.2) |
10 (6.1) |
|
19 (8.0) |
10 (6.4) |
|
| Never | 309 (66.3) | 123 (75.5) | 147 (61.8) | 95 (60.9) | ||
SD – standard deviation, AU$ – Australian dollar, BMI – body mass index