Title: Empirical Study of Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Diabetes Mellitus Patients Using Cochran-Q-Test
Authors: Olanrewaju, S.O., Yahaya, H.U.
Volume: 1
Issue: 4
Pages: 38-46
Publication Date: 2017/06/28//
Abstract:
This study examined the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics of patents suffering with diabetes mellitus disease in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja using Cochran-Q test. The data was gotten from the Records Department, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, which ranges from August 2006 to December 2016. Cochran-Q statistic is a chi-square variation formed by a ratio of the variation across test variables to the variation within test variables. The degree of freedom is approximately chi-square, which is equal to the number of test variables minus 1. The results show that there are significant relationships between age, gender, complication caused by diabetes and mortality rate at 5% level of significance. A further test of pair-wise comparison analysis of the socio-demographic characteristics was carried out with Bonfernni correction which shows that there is a relationship between age and mortality status, between age and complication caused by diabetes mellitus disease and between complication caused by diabetes mellitus disease and mortality status, but no relationship between gender and mortality status nor between gender and complication caused by diabetes mellitus disease.