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Table 1 Difficulty Index Scores of diabetic and control children

From: Psychological and behavioral complications in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus in Sohag

Difficulty Index Score

Difficulty Index scoring

Children with diabetes(564)

  

Control children(564)

  

Normal n (%)

Borderline n (%)

Abnormal n (%)

Normal n (%)

Borderline n (%)

Abnormal n (%)

P value

Emotional scale

151(26.77)

60(10.63)

353(62.58)

340(60.28)

91(16.13)

135(23.9)

<0.001

Hyperactivity scale

137(24.29)

68(12)

359(63.65)

267(47.34)

185(32.8)

112(19.85)

<0.001

Conduct scale

131(23.22)

55(9.75)

378(67)

371(65.78)

32(5.67)

164(29.0)

<0.001

Prosocial scale

509(90.24)

27(4.78)

28(4.96)

525(93)

24(4.25)

15(2.65)

0.18

Total score

17(3)

26(4.6)

521(92.37)

372(65.95)

78(13.8)

114(20.2)

<0.001

  1. P value < 0.05 is considered statistically significant. P value < 0.001 is considered highly significant.