Table 5.
Worries 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 | 19.1 ± 6.5 | 18.0 (7.0–35.0) 2 | 0.3352 |
| Below 3 years | 20.0 ± 6.7 | 20.0 (6.0–35.0) 2 | ||
| GFD adherence 3 | 1 | 18.0 ± 2.8 | 18.0 (16.0–20.0) 2 | 0.2462 |
| 2 | 21.0 ± 7.1 | 21.0 (8.0–34.0) 2 | ||
| 3 | 19.1 ± 7.7 | 18.0 (8.0–34.0) | ||
| 4 | 19.7 ± 6.3 | 19.0 (7.0–35.0) | ||
| 0 | 14.3 ± 8.9 | 13.0 (6.0–33.0) 2 | ||
| BMI category | Underweight | 19.8 ± 7.0 | 19.0 (8.0–35.0) | 0.7485 |
| Normal weight | 19.6 ± 6.4 | 19.0 (6.0–35.0) 2 | ||
| Overweight | 19.5 ± 7.2 | 20.0 (7.0–33.0) | ||
| Place of residence | Village | 20.2 ± 7.2 | 20.0 (8.0–35.0) | 0.0816 |
| Town up to 100,000 residents | 18.1 ± 6.0 | 18.0 (6.0–33.0) | ||
| Town over 100,000 residents | 20.2 ± 6.6 | 20.0 (7.0–35.0) | ||
| Educational level | Primary and Secondary | 18.7 ± 6.9 | 17.5 (8.0–35.0) 2 | 0.7919 |
| Postgraduate | 19.7 ± 6.4 | 20.0 (6.0–34.0) | ||
| University degree | 19.9 ± 6.6 | 19.0 (8.0–35.0) 2 | ||
| Economic status | Very bad and bad | 14.8 ± 5.1 | 15.0 (6.0–24.0) | 0.0015 |
| Average | 19.3 ± 6.7 | 19.0 (7.0–34.0) 2 | ||
| Good and very good | 20.9 ± 6.3 | 21.0 (8.0–35.0) | ||
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.