Table 2.
Independent variable | Skin tears | Multiple skin tears | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | P | No | Yes | P | |
Age, median (range; IQR) | 69 (18‐99; 25) | 81 (26‐99; 14) | a < .001 | 70 (18‐99; 25) | 81 (58‐98; 14) | a < .001 |
Female, n (%) | 923 (45.7%) | 74 (41.8%) | χ2 (1) .991; .319b | 977 (45.9%) | 20 (29%) | χ2 (1) 7.725; .005b, c |
BMI, median (range; IQR) | 25.96 (9.79‐107.15; 8.87) | 23.73 (12.31‐50.87; 6.94) | a < .001 | 25.80 (9.79‐107.15; 8.86) | 23.90 (15.61‐50.87; 6.95) | a.006 |
BMI category, n (%) | χ2(4) 26.299; <.001b | χ2(4) 8.868; .064b | ||||
<18.5 | 142 (7.3%) | 21 (11.9%) | 155 (7.5%) | 8 (11.6%) | ||
18.5‐24.9 | 699 (35.8%) | 83 (47.2%) | 749 (36.3%) | 33 (47.8%) | ||
25‐29.9 | 533 (27.3%) | 48 (27.3%) | 563 (27.3%) | 18 (26.1%) | ||
>30 | 483 (24.7%) | 23 (13.1%) | 497 (24.1%) | 9 (13.0%) | ||
>40 | 97 (5.0%) | 1 (0.6%) | <.001 | 97 (4.7%) | 1 (1.4%) | |
Nutrition status, n (%) | χ2(2) 34.499; <.001b | χ2(2) 22.930; <.001b | ||||
SGA A | 1253 (68.3%) | 78 (46.2%) | 1307 (67.3%) | 24 (38.7%) | ||
SGA B | 479 (26.1%) | 77 (45.6%) | 523 (26.9%) | 33 (53.2%) | ||
SGA C | 102 (5.6%) | 14 (8.3%) | 111 (5.7%) | 5 (8.1%) |
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; SGA, Subjective Global Assessment; IQR, Interquartile range.
Mann‐Whitney U‐test.
Pearson χ 2 test.
One cell (10.0%) has expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 3.17.