Table 4.
Social 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 | 35.2 ± 9.6 | 36.0 (8.0–49.0) 2 | 0.2012 |
| Below 3 years | 36.9 ± 9.7 | 39.0 (14.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| GFD adherence 3 | 1 | 36.5 ± 14.9 | 36.0 (26.0–47.0) 2 | 0.2526 |
| 2 | 38.1 ± 9.6 | 41.0 (14.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| 3 | 34.8 ± 10.8 | 37.0 (14.0–49.0) | ||
| 4 | 36.2 ± 9.5 | 38.0 (8.0–49.0) | ||
| 0 | 30.3 ± 10.4 | 27.0 (17.0–46.0) | ||
| BMI category | Underweight | 35.9 ± 10.8 | 38.5 (8.0–49.0) 2 | 0.5055 |
| Normal weight | 36.5 ± 9.1 | 38.0 (14.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| Overweight | 35.1 ± 11.0 | 39.0 (11.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| Place of residence | Village | 37.4 ± 9.1 | 40.5 (17.0–49.0) 2 | 0.2662 |
| Town up to 100,000 residents | 34.2 ± 9.5 | 33.0 (15.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| Town over 100,000 residents | 36.7 ± 9.9 | 39.0 (8.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| Educational level | Primary and Secondary | 33.9 ± 10.6 | 33.0 (8.0–49.0) 2 | 0.3328 |
| Postgraduate | 35.8 ± 9.4 | 39.0 (11.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| University degree | 37.3 ± 9.3 | 39.0 (14.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| Economic status | Very bad and bad | 28.9 ± 11.2 | 27.0 (8.0–48.0) | 0.0023 |
| Average | 35.7 ± 9.6 | 37.0 (11.0–49.0) 2 | ||
| Good and very good | 38.2 ± 8.7 | 40.0 (16.0–49.0) 2 | ||
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.