Table 3.
Emotional subscale data categorized by CD duration, GFD adherence, BMI and sociodemographic characteristics.
| Categories | Mean ± SD | Median (min–max) |
p-Value 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD duration | Over 3 years | 27.1 ± 7.8 | 27.0 (7.0–47.0) | 0.8851 |
| Below 3 years | 27.2 ± 8.3 | 26.0 (11.0–49.0) | ||
| GFD adherence 3 | 1 | 26.0 ± 1.4 | 26.0 (25.0–27.0) 2 | 0.6714 |
| 2 | 27.1 ± 8.5 | 24.5 (18.0–48.0) 2 | ||
| 3 | 25.2 ± 6.9 | 23.0 (14.0–42.0) | ||
| 4 | 27.5 ± 8.2 | 27.0 (7.0–49.0) | ||
| 0 | 23.6 ± 7.0 | 22.0 (15.0–35.0) | ||
| BMI category | Underweight | 25.7 ± 9.0 | 25.0 (7.0–43.0) | 0.5127 |
| Normal weight | 27.3 ± 8.1 | 27.0 (11.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| Overweight | 27.8 ± 7.2 | 27.0 (14.0–48.0) | ||
| Place of residence | Village | 28.5 ± 6.7 | 29.0 (13.0–49.0) | 0.5299 |
| Town up to 100,000 residents | 26.2 ± 9.1 | 23.5 (7.0–48.0) | ||
| Town over 100,000 residents | 27.2 ± 7.9 | 26.0 (11.0–46.0) | ||
| Educational level | Primary and Secondary | 25.1 ± 7.6 | 23.0 (7.0–43.0) 2 | 0.0594 |
| Postgraduate | 25.9 ± 8.0 | 25.0 (11.0–48.0) | ||
| University degree | 28.6 ± 8.1 | 28.0 (11.0–49.0) | ||
| Economic status | Very bad and bad | 21.5 ± 7.3 | 21.0 (11.0–42.0) 2 | 0.0015 |
| Average | 26.5 ± 7.8 | 25.0 (7.0–49.0) | ||
| Good and very good | 29.1 ± 7.8 | 28.0 (13.0–46.0) | ||
1 multifactor analysis of variance (ANOVA); 2 non-parametric distribution (verified using Shapiro-Wilk test—p ≤ 0.05); 3 GFD (gluten-free diet) adherence: (1) very poor; (2) good, but occasionally eat dishes containing gluten (at home or outside home); (3) very good, but occasionally eat dishes containing gluten (only outside home); (4) excellent; (0) difficult to say.