Table 3.
Presenting conditions for new and returning clients (percentages)
| Number with condition | Total % N = 295 |
New client N = 156 |
Return client N = 139 |
χ2= | P= | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skin and nail pathologies | 201 | 68.1 | 62.8 | 74.1 | 4.31 | .038 |
| Footwear | 153 | 51.9 | 57.1 | 46.0 | 3.57 | .059 |
| Biomechanical | 130 | 44.1 | 48.1 | 39.6 | 2.16 | .142 |
| Fungal | 69 | 23.4 | 27.6 | 18.7 | 3.22 | .073 |
| Diabetes | 45 | 15.3 | 8.3 | 23.0 | 12.27 | .001* |
| Acute wound care | 34 | 11.5 | 16.0 | 6.5 | 6.56 | .01* |
| Vascular | 25 | 8.5 | 11.5 | 5.0 | 4.01 | .045* |
| Traumatic injury | 17 | 5.8 | 8.3 | 2.9 | 4.03 | .045* |
| Chronic wound care | 14 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 7.2 | 3.49 | .062 |
| Infection | 13 | 4.4 | 6.4 | 2.2 | 3.16 | .076 |
| Bacterial infection (PK) | 7 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 0.7 | Too small to test |
*Significant at p < 0.05; Bonferroni correction applied to z-tests for independent proportions