Table 1 Respiratory, cutaneous symptoms and selected characteristics of the 108 adoptive children attending the International Adoption Unit at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy between September 2012 -and July 2016 (variables were not significant at the univariate analysis and therefore were not included in the multivariate analysis)
ALL | Respiratory symptoms | Cutaneous symptoms | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | col% | N | row% | p | N | row% | p | |
country of origin | 0.244 | 0.457 | ||||||
africa | 24 | 22.22 | 7 | 29.17 | 7 | 29.17 | ||
latin america | 14 | 12.96 | 3 | 23.08 | 1 | 7.14 | ||
asia | 15 | 13.89 | 1 | 6.67 | 4 | 26.67 | ||
eastern europe | 52 | 48.15 | 11 | 21.15 | 12 | 23.08 | ||
missing | 3 | 2.78 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 33.33 | ||
sex | 0.495 | 0.822 | ||||||
F | 41 | 37.96 | 7 | 17.07 | 9 | 21.95 | ||
M | 67 | 62.04 | 15 | 22.73 | 16 | 23.88 | ||
age, years | 0.562 | 0.619 | ||||||
< 3 | 26 | 24.07 | 6 | 24 | 7 | 26.92 | ||
3–5 | 36 | 33.33 | 7 | 19.44 | 11 | 30.56 | ||
6+ | 45 | 41.67 | 8 | 17.78 | 7 | 15.56 | ||
missing | 1 | 0.93 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | ||
poor growth by age & sex | 0.836 | 0.274 | ||||||
no | 16 | 14.81 | 3 | 18.75 | 2 | 12.5 | ||
yes | 92 | 85.19 | 19 | 20.88 | 23 | 25 | ||
Stool parasites | 0.673 | 0.369 | ||||||
no | 84 | 77.78 | 18 | 21.43 | 18 | 21.43 | ||
yes | 23 | 21.3 | 4 | 17.39 | 7 | 30.43 | ||
missing | 1 | 0.93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
vaccination card | 0.671 | 0.417 | ||||||
no | 48 | 44.44 | 9 | 18.75 | 13 | 27.08 | ||
yes | 60 | 55.56 | 13 | 22.03 | 12 | 20 | ||