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Table 4 Presenting conditions for clients by housing status (percentages)

From: Responding to foot health needs of people experiencing homelessness: the role of a publicly funded community-based podiatry service

 

N

Total %

N = 292

Rough Sleeping

N = 132

Unstable/ insecure

N = 94

Recently housed

N = 66

χ2

P=

Skin and nail pathologies*

199

68.2

68.9a,b

56.4b

83.3a

13.0

.001*

Footwear

151

51.7

51.5

58.5

42.4

4.02

.134

Biomechanical

129

44.2

50.8a

43.6a,b

31.8b

6.42

.04*

Fungal

69

23.6

25.8

23.4

19.7

.89

.64

Diabetes

44

15.1

15.9

13.8

15.2

.186

.91

Acute wound care

33

11.3

17.4a

6.4b

6.1a,b

9.01

.01*

Vascular

25

8.6

10.6

6.4

7.6

1.36

.51

Traumatic injury

17

5.8

10.6a

3.2a,b

0b

10.78

.005*

Chronic wound care

14

4.8

5.3

3.2

6.1

Infection

13

4.5

6.8

3.2

1.5

Bacterial infection (PK)

7

2.4

5.3

0

0

  1. -Cells too small to analyse
  2. * Significant difference p < .05; Bonferroni correction applied to z-tests for independent proportions - each subscript letter denotes a subset of housing categories whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the .05 level