A cross-sectional study of quality of life in a cohort of enteral ostomy patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in a developing country in South Asia

Table 3 Association between QOL and demographic parameters

	N	Mean	Standard deviation	p value
Overall QOL with sex
Male	30	51.1890	12.79	0.51
Female	13	57.4254	11.75	0.51
Overall QOL with age
Age <60	31	52.5361	13.37	0.660
Age >60	12	54.4650	11.12	0.660
Overall QOL with ethnicity
Sinhala	27	53.72	11.82	0.892
Tamil	9	51.37	16.63
Muslim	7	52.72	12.00
Overall QOL with employment status
Employed	16	54.0694	11.61	0.69
Unemployed	27	52.4848	13.45	0.69
Overall QOL with income
Comfortable income	7	57.2757	6.54	0.46
Other	33	53.3782	13.42	0.46
Family and social relationships scores with income
Comfortable income	7	3.3810	0.4879	0.027
Other	33	2.7677	1.0257	0.027
Overall QOL with marital status
Married	29	52.7945	13.60	0.41
Others	14	53.6543	10.97	0.41
Overall QOL with education
Less than O/L	33	53.12	13.60	0.96
O/L or above	10	52.90	9.58	0.96
Overall QOL with BMI
High BMI	25	52.2516	11.76	0.53
Low or normal BMI	17	54.7576	14.37	0.53

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