Barriers and challenges affecting parents’ use of adrenaline auto-injector in children with anaphylaxis

Table 3 Univariate analysis of parents and children’s characteristics in association with their reported outcome of training on a Likert scale

		Satisfaction with the training received	Competency in using the AAI	Comfortable and not scared to use the AAI
Child’s gender	Male	3.3 ± 1.0	3.5 ± 0.6	3.5 ± 0.7
	Female	3.2 ± 1.1	3.7 ± 0.8	3.3 ± 0.9
	P value1	0.7	0.2	0.5
Age group (yr)	< 5	3.3 ± 1.1	3.6 ± 0.7	3.5 ± 0.8
	5-10	3.3 ± 1.0	3.7 ± 0.8	3.4 ± 0.8
	> 10	2.8 ± 1.1	3.6 ± 0.8	3.1 ± 0.9
	P value2	0.6	0.8	0.7
Diagnosis	Food allergy	3.2 ± 1.1	3.6 ± 0.7	3.4 ± 0.8
	Idiopathic anaphylaxis	2.5 ± 0.7	3.0 ± 0	2.5 ± 0.7
	Insect/venom induced allergy	3.6 ± 0.6	3.6 ± 0.6	3.3 ± 0.6
	P value2	0.5	0.4	0.2

¹Student unpaired t-test.

²Analysis of variance (ANOVA). AAI: Adrenaline auto-injector.