We used t tests to assess differences in the means of sample characteristics and compared youth with diabetes and those without diabetes and youth with ITDM and those with NITDM.
Descriptive statistics were calculated for mean and frequency of sample characteristics, food-related activities, food security, and the presence of individual food items.
Survey and household food inventory data were entered into a relational database (Microsoft Office Access 2007); descriptive statistics were calculated for mean and frequency of sample characteristics, food-related activities, food security, and the presence of individual food items, using Stata statistical software release 11.0 (Stata Corp., College Station, TX).
The 30 bamboo samples were measured after the culms reached their maximum height, and the sample characteristics of mean DBH and culm height are shown in Table 1.
Table 2 Differences in the Future Thinking Questionnaire subscales based on independent variables Sample characteristics Frequency Mean of rank T-test and Chi-square Sig.
Table 1 Sample characteristics Variable Mean Socioeconomic characteristics Household size 4.3 Age of head of household 50.1 Total yearly household expenditure $18,702 Primary education 35.9% University education 6.6% Geographical distribution (by governorate) Beirut 7.9% Mount Lebanon 37.0% Northern Lebanon 14.7% Bekaa 17.6% Southern Lebanon 12.6% Nabatieh 10.2%.
We summarized descriptive sample characteristics using mean (standard deviation, SD) for continuous measures and number (percentage) for categorical variables.
Table 1 shows general sample characteristics, including mean total SCQ by each of the descriptive and diagnostic variables.
Sample characteristics include: mean age 28.3 years, BMI 25.7 kg/m, and gestational age at baseline visit of 32.5 weeks.
Sample characteristics with means and standard deviations for all variables and assessment points are displayd in Table 1.
