Table 4.
Comparison of sociodemographic characteristics of patients presenting with suspected clinically apparent brain injury (CABI) before the COVID-19 pandemic, patients presenting with suspected CABI during the pandemic, and cases presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis but without suspected CABI during the pandemic.
| Characteristics | Group | Test statistic | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspected CABI before pandemic (group 1, n = 18) | Suspected CABI during pandemic (group 2, n = 18) | DKA without suspected CABI during pandemic (group 3, n = 141) | |||
| Sociodemographic variables (mean ± SD † or proportion) | |||||
| Age (years) | 11.3 ± 4.4 | 10.9 ± 3.4 | 11.9 ± 4.2 | H = 1.801 | 0.41 |
| Female sex | 39% | 28% | 44% | χ 2 = 1.791 | 0.41 |
| Race/ethnicity | FHH exact test = 6.474 | 0.30 | |||
| Black or African American | 35% | 18% | 22% | ||
| Hispanic or Latino | 0% | 0% | 14% | ||
| White | 65% | 82% | 63% | ||
| Other | 0% | 0% | 3% | ||
| Public insurance | 39% | 44% | 42% | FHH exact test = 2.495 | 0.60 |
| Caregiver health literacy score | 4.9 ± 1.1 | 5.3 ± 1.4 | 5.1 ± 1.3 | H = 2.077 | 0.35 |
| Caregiver occupation code | 1.4 ± 0.9 | 1.3 ± 1.2 | 1.7 ± 1.0 | H = 3.349 | 0.18 |
| Presence of intact family | 61% | 67% | 58% | χ 2 = 0.506 | 0.78 |
| Developmental/psychiatric concerns in child | 56% | 39% | 29% | χ 2 = 5.420 | 0.07 |
†Although means and standard deviations were reported for all variables, nonparametric testing was performed for comparison of mean ranks in the cases where data in at least one group were not normally distributed and/or there were unequal variances across the groups. Abbreviations: CABI, clinically apparent brain injury; DKA, diabetic ketoacidosis; SD, standard deviation; FHH, Fisher-Freeman-Halton.