Table 2.
Demographics of patients engaged with the Providence Community Teaching Kitchen.
| Overall, N = 3077 |
Highly Engaged, N = 959 |
Engaged, N = 2118 |
p-Value 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance Type, N (%) | <0.001 | |||
| Commercial/Other | 1049 (35.2) | 249 (26.6) | 800 (39.1) | |
| Medicare | 1033 (34.7) | 375 (39.1) | 658 (32.2) | |
| Medicaid | 828 (27.8) | 283 (30.4) | 545 (26.7) | |
| Dual Eligible | 69 (2.3) | 28 (3.0) | 41 (2.0) | |
| Missing | 98 | 24 | 74 | |
| Gender/Sex, N (%) | 0.2 | |||
| Female | 2038 (66.2) | 656 (68.4) | 1382 (65.2) | |
| Male | 1037 (33.7) | 302 (31.5) | 735 (34.7) | |
| Other | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | |
| Mean Age (SD) | 51.4 (16.2) | 52.3 (15.6) | 50.9 (16.4) | 0.013 |
| Age Group, N (%) | 0.075 | |||
| 18–39 | 812 (26.3) | 224 (23.4) | 588 (27.8) | |
| 40–49 | 545 (17.7) | 164 (17.1) | 381 (18.0) | |
| 50–59 | 645 (21.0) | 216 (22.5) | 429 (20.3) | |
| 60–64 | 355 (11.5) | 118 (12.3) | 237 (11.2) | |
| 65+ | 720 (23.4) | 237 (24.7) | 483 (22.8) | |
| Race/Ethnicity, N (%) | 0.009 | |||
| White, Non-Hispanic | 2357 (79.8) | 743 (80.8) | 1614 (79.4) | |
| Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 173 (5.9) | 63 (6.8) | 110 (5.4) | |
| Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic | 102 (3.5) | 23 (2.5) | 79 (3.9) | |
| Black or African American, Non-Hispanic | 78 (2.6) | 31 (3.4) | 47 (2.3) | |
| Hispanic or Latino, of any race | 244 (8.3) | 60 (6.5) | 184 (9.0) | |
| Missing | 123 | 39 | 84 | |
| Social Needs, N (%) | ||||
| Food Insecurity | 608 (19.8) | 315 (32.8) | 293 (13.8) | <0.0001 |
| Housing | 86 (2.8) | 45 (4.7) | 41 (1.9) | <0.0001 |
| Transportation | 112 (3.6) | 55 (5.7) | 57 (2.7) | <0.0001 |
| Utilities | 78 (2.5) | 36 (3.8) | 42 (2.0) | 0.006 |
| Comorbidities, N (%) | ||||
| Obesity | 436 (14.2) | 154 (16.1) | 282 (13.3) | 0.049 |
| Diabetes mellitus with/without complication | 401 (13.0) | 120 (12.5) | 281 (13.3) | 0.6 |
| Disorders of lipid metabolism | 368 (12.0) | 112 (11.7) | 256 (12.1) | 0.79 |
| Hypertension | 365 (11.9) | 117 (12.2) | 248 (11.7) | 0.74 |
| Depressive disorders | 281 (9.1) | 109 (11.4) | 172 (8.1) | 0.005 |
| Osteoarthritis | 222 (7.2) | 80 (8.3) | 142 (6.7) | 0.12 |
| Heart failure | 145 (4.7) | 45 (4.7) | 100 (4.7) | 1 |
| Coronary atherosclerosis and other heart disease | 141 (4.6) | 46 (4.8) | 95 (4.5) | 0.77 |
| Chronic kidney disease | 130 (4.2) | 44 (4.6) | 86 (4.1) | 0.56 |
| 3 or more chronic conditions | 322 (10.5) | 112 (11.7) | 210 (9.9) | 0.16 |
1 Pearson’s Chi-squared test; Fisher’s exact test; Wilcoxon rank sum test.