Tab. II.

The impact of demographic and anthropometric characteristics and behaviors on the Quality of Life, bivariate analysis.

	Physical score		Mental score
	Pearson's correlation	P	Pearson's correlation	P
Age	0.023	0.807	0.209	0.026
BMI at the imprisonment	0.077	0.428	0.061	0.533
Current BMI	-0.135	0.172	-0.108	0.274
BMI variation	-0.232	0.021	-0.164	0.106
MET total	0.217	0.040	0.248	0.018
Years of detention	0.088	0.355	-0.041	0.666
	Median (IQR)	P *	Median (IQR)	P *
Educational level
None/primary school	50.2 (13.3)	0.232	47.0 (15.7)	0.591
Secondary school	48.7 (11.7)		49.6 (15.7)
High school / university	51.7 (9.8)		43.3 (21.0)
Civil status
Not married	50.2 (12.7)	0.988	48.3 (15.0)	0.955
Married	49.5 (11.43)		46.4 (19.2)
Smoking status
No	52.0 (8.7)	0.226	52.1 (12.3)	0.022
Yes	49.5 (13.2)		45.0 (18.2)
Years of detention
0-2	48.6 (11.4)	0.194	50.7 (19.2)	0.898
> 2	50.8 (12.5)		47.1 (15.2)
Nationality
Italian	49.4 (13.0)	0.400	47.6 (18.3)	0.614
Foreign	50.4 (10.0)		47.5 (17.6)

IQR: interquartile range

^*P: p-value of Mann Whitney's test for dichotomous qualitative variables and Kruskal-Wallis test for qualitative variables with more than two modalities.

Bold: p < 0.05.