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Table 6 Association between father’s occupation and CBCL scores of survivors of childhood brain tumor

From: Behavioral outcome among survivors of childhood brain tumor: a case control study

Father’s occupation

Not working

n = 3 Median (IQR)

Office work

n = 7 Median (IQR)

Field work

n = 8 Median (IQR)

Professionals

n = 4 Median (IQR)

Others

n = 16 Median (IQR)

p-value

Main Scale

 Internalizing score

68.0 (59.0–68.0)

67.0 (50.0–70.0)

61.0 (54.8–65.0)

54.5 (46.5–67.8)

54.0 (48.5–58.0)

0.077

 Externalizing score

58.0 (55.0–58.0)

56.0 (44.0–59.0)

53.0 (51.0–61.5)

47.5 (44.0–49.5)

50.5 (46.3–57.5)

0.122

 Total score

68.0 (61.0–68.0)

59.0 (53.0–65.0)

60.0 (53.8–65.8)

50.5 (46.8–58.0)

51.0 (48.3–58.8)

0.029*

Subscales

 Anxious

56.0 (55.0–56.0)

57.0 (50.0–66.0)

59.0 (52.0–63.5)

53.0 (50.8–70.3)

51.0 (50.0–52.0)

0.124

 Withdrawn/depressed

60.0 (60.0–60.0)

63.0 (54.0–68.0)

55.0 (50.0–61.3)

52.5 (50.5–60.5)

56.5 (52.3–62.3)

0.341

 Somatic complaints

74.0 (50.0–74.4)

61.0 (53.0–76.0)

57.5 (53.0–70.0)

59.5 (51.3–68.5)

53.0 (50.3–63.3)

0.438

 Social problems

68.0 (66.0–68.0)

62.0 (53.0–69.0)

60.5 (55.5–67.5)

53.0 (51.5–65.8)

58.0 (51.5–60.8)

0.132

 Thought problems

66.0 (64.0–66.0)

50.0 (50.0–51.0)

57.0 (52.8–60.3)

56.0 (50.3–64.8)

54.0 (50.0–57.3)

0.038**

 Attention problems

66.0 (62.0–66.0)

59.0 (53.0–62.0)

61.0 (55.3–70.0)

51.5 (51.0–52.0)

57.0 (52.3–60.5)

0.011§

 Rule breaking behavior

54.0 (54.0–54.0)

51.0 (50.0–53.0)

53.5 (53.0–54.8)

51.0 (50.3–51.8)

51.0 (50.0–53.4)

0.019

 Aggressive behavior

57.0 (56.0–57.0)

55.0 (50.0–61.0)

53.0 (51.0–62.5)

50.5 (50.0–51.0)

53.5 (50.0–57.8)

0.174

  1. n: number, value presented as median (25th centile – 75th centile), analyses using Kruskal-Wallis test
  2. Mann-Whitney U test
  3. *Significant difference is between professionals and not working fathers and between others and not working fathers
  4. **Significant difference is between office workers and field workers and between others and not working fathers
  5. §Significant difference is between professionals and office workers; professionals and field workers; professionals and not working fathers, and between those not working and others
  6. Significant difference is between field workers and office workers; between professionals and field workers; between field workers and others and between professionals and not working fathers
  7. statistically significant with p-value <0.05