Table 2.
Sample characteristics and relationship with GI symptoms
| Total N | No GI diagnosis (n = 44) |
Functional constipation (n = 32) |
Non-retentive fecal incontinence (n = 2) |
Other Rome-III diagnoses (n = 4) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | 82 | 0.40 | ||||
| Male (%) | 74 (90.2) | 41 (93.2) | 28 (87.5) | 2 (100) | 3 (75.0) | |
| Female (%) | 8 (9.8) | 3 (6.8) | 4 (12.5) | 0 (0) | 1 (25.0) | |
| Age: Mean (SD) | 82 | 12.0 (4.3) | 10.6 (3.4) | 10.0 (4.2) | 10.8 (4.4) | 0.41 |
| Race | 82 | 0.42 | ||||
| Caucasian (%) | 75 (91.5) | 38 (86.4) | 31 (96.9) | 2 (100) | 4 (100) | |
| Other race (%) | 7 (8.5) | 6 (13.6) | 1 (3.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Ethnicity | 82 | 0.66 | ||||
| Non-Hispanic/Latino (%) | 79 (96.3) | 43 (97.7) | 30 (93.8) | 2 (100) | 4 (100) | |
| Hispanic/Latino (%) | 3 (3.7) | 1 (2.3) | 2 (6.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Household income | 71 | 1.0 | ||||
| Less than 50k (%) | 31 (43.7) | 16 (42.1) | 13 (44.8) | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | |
| 50k or greater (%) | 40 (56.3) | 22 (57.9) | 16 (55.2) | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | |
| ADOS severity score: Mean (SD) | 65 | 7.1 (2.6) | 6.7 (1.9) | 7.5 (2.1) | 7.0 (1.0) | 0.86 |
| Verbal status | 73 | 1.00 | ||||
| Verbal | 67 | 38 (90.5) | 24 (92.3) | 2 (100) | 3 (100) | |
| Nonverbal | 6 | 4 (9.5) | 2 (7.7) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| IQ: Mean (SD) | 68 | 85.9 (23.5) | 80.8 (24.9) | 72.0 (5.7) | 88.3 (21.5) | 0.71 |