Table 2.
Stratification of frailty and functional difficulty according to gender in the low- and higher-income samples
| Variable | Group | Low income (n = 704) | High income (n = 510) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | t | p | Mean | SD | t | p | ||
| Frailty | Men | 5.38 | 2.85 | -3.78 | *** | 6.01 | 2.74 | -6.87 | *** |
| Women | 6.10 | 3.07 | 7.47 | 2.45 | |||||
| Functional difficulty | Men | 23.73 | 5.59 | -1.56 | 0.060 | 20.79 | 7.65 | -4.78 | *** |
| Women | 24.35 | 6.45 | 23.85 | 8.04 | |||||
***p < 0.001; the homogeneity of variances assumption is met at p > 0.05 for each independent samples t-test; SD – standard deviation (of the mean)