Table 1.

Family member and patient demographics

	White Family Member	Black Family Member	Total
Number	107	22	129
Family member characteristics
Age, yr, median (IQR)	54.0 (45.0, 62.0)	48.5 (39.0, 56.0)	53.0 (44.0, 62.0)
Female, %	75.7	72.7	75.2
Relationship to patient, %
Partner	53.3	27.3	48.8
Parent	20.6	31.8	22.5
Child	14.0	27.3	16.3
Other	12.2	13.6	12.4
Randomized to intervention, %	45.8	59.1	48.1
Health literacy, median (IQR)*	5.0 (4.0, 6.0)	5.0 (3.0, 7.0)	5.0 (4.0, 6.0)
Endorses hope for future, %†	96.3	100	96.9
Endorses social support, %‡	98.1	86.4	96.1
Family–physician sex concordance, %
Female–female	25.2	18.2	24.0
Male–male	16.8	18.2	17.0
Discordant	58.0	63.6	58.9
Family–physician race concordance, %	80.4	0	66.7
Patient characteristics
Age, yr, median (IQR)	54.0 (41.0, 67.0)	48.0 (35.0, 59.0)	53.0 (40.0, 64.0)
Female, %	32.7	40.9	34.1
Race, %
White	97.2	0	80.6
Black	0.9	100	17.8
Other	1.9	0	1.6
Charlson comorbidity index score (29), median (IQR)	3.0 (1.0, 6.0)	3.0 (1.0,5.0)	3.0 (1.0, 6.0)
APACHE II score (30) at enrollment, median (IQR)	23.0 (18.0, 28.0)	23.5 (17.0, 31.0)	23.0 (18.0, 28.0)
In-hospital mortality, %	26.2	27.3	26.4

Definition of abbreviations: APACHE = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; IQR = interquartile range.

^*Ranging from 3 to 15 in order of decreasing health literacy.

^† The statement assessing hope was, “I look forward to the future with hope.”

^‡ The statement assessing social support was, “I feel that I have someone I can turn to for advice about making important decisions (like medical decisions).”