Pressure Ulcer Risk Evaluation in Critical Patients: Clinical and Social Characteristics

Table 2: Distribution of the Norton, Braden and Waterlow scale scores and clinical and social characteristics of patients admitted to the ICU (n=78).

Variable	Gender		Marital Status		Age	Religion		Hypertension		Diabetes		Alcohol consumption			Smoking
Norton Scale	Female	Male	With a partner	Without a partner	-	Practising	Not Practising	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes		No	Yes		No
High Risk	34	21	37	18	-	49	06	32	23	16	39	03		52	05		50
Low Risk	09	14	15	08	-	20	03	12	11	07	16	02		21	07		16
p-value	0.066¹		0.861¹		0.149³	0.530²		0.626¹		0.906¹		0.464²			0.024²
Braden scale
High Risk	33	25	37	21	-	51	07	35	23	19	39	04	54		06	52
Low Risk	10	10	15	05	-	18	02	09	11	04	16	01	19		06	14
p-value	0.593¹		0.359¹		0.212³	0.582²		0.233¹		0.281¹		0.619²			0.046²
Waterlow scale
High Risk	26	23	31	18	-	42	07	33	16	20	29	03	46		04	45
Low Risk	17	12	21	08	-	27	02	11	18	03	26	02	27		08	21
p-value	0.633¹		0.407¹		0.004³	0.274²		0.011¹		0.004¹		0.619²			0.026²

Legend: ¹Chi-square test; ²Fisher’s Exact Test; and ³Mann-Whitney U test.