Research Article
Preoperative Nutritional Status and Its Consequences on Abdominal Surgery in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia: An Institution-Based Observational Study
Table 1
General characteristics of respondents at hospitals in Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia, October 2016.
| | Characteristics (n = 105) | N (%) |
| | Age of respondents (year) | | 19–24 | 28 (26.7) | | 25–40 | 50 (27.6) | | 41–55 | 27 (25.7) |
| | Job | | Merchant | 28 (26.7) | | Government employees | 15 (14.2) | | Farmer | 41 (39) | | Student | 7 (6.7) | | No job | 7 (6.7) | | Others | 7 (6.7) |
| | Sex | | Male | 50 (47.6) | | Female | 55 (52.4) |
| | Marital status | | Married | 78 (74. 3) | | Never married | 22 (21) | | Divorced/widowed | 5 (1.8) |
| | Level of education | | Illiterate | 31 (29.5) | | Primary school | 25 (23.8) | | Secondary school | 14 (13.5) | | High school | 16 (15.2) | | College and above | 19 (18.1) |
| | Religion | | Christian | 92 (87.6) | | Muslim | 13 (12.4) |
| | Ethnicity | | Wolaita | 53 (50.5) | | Hadiya | 6 (5.7) | | Kenbata | 10 (9.5) | | Oromo | 11 (10.5) | | Gamo Gofa | 13 (12.4) | | Others | 12 (11.4) |
| | Monthly income (USD) | | <15 | 59 (56.2) | | 15–34 | 16 (16.2) | | 33–88 | 18 (13.3) | | >88 | 12 (11.4) |
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USD :United States Dollar. Others include daily laborers and nongovernmental organizations. |
