Table 1.
Baseline sociodemographic characteristics of participants by program completion status and cohort context.
| Completer | LTF1 | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metro (N = 24) | Rural (N = 76) | Metro (N = 31) | Rural (N = 39) | Metro (N = 55) | Rural (N = 115) | |
| Racial identity | Fisher’s Exact p < 0.001 *** | |||||
| American Indian | 2 (8%) | 2 (3%) | 2 (6%) | 1 (3%) | 4 (7%) | 3 (3%) |
| Asian or Asian American | 1 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (3%) | 2 (5%) | 2 (4%) | 2 (2%) |
| Black or African American | 16 (67%) | 36 (47%) | 27 (87%) | 18 (46%) | 43 (78%) | 54 (47%) |
| Hawaiian, Pacific Islander | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) |
| White or Caucasian | 5 (21%) | 38 (50%) | 1 (3%) | 16 (41%) | 6 (11%) | 54 (47%) |
| Missing | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) |
| Age | ||||||
| Under 18 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) |
| 18–29 | 1 (4%) | 3 (4%) | 2 (6%) | 2 (5%) | 3 (5%) | 5 (4%) |
| 30–39 | 3 (12%) | 5 (7%) | 3 (10%) | 3 (8%) | 6 (11%) | 8 (7%) |
| 40–49 | 4 (17%) | 13 (17%) | 4 (13%) | 2 (5%) | 8 (15%) | 15 (13%) |
| 50–59 | 6 (25%) | 21 (28%) | 5 (16%) | 12 (31%) | 11 (20%) | 33 (29%) |
| 60 and over | 10 (42%) | 34 (45%) | 17 (55%) | 19 (49%) | 27 (49%) | 53 (46%) |
| Sex | χ2 = 8.97, p = 0.003** | |||||
| Female | 15 (62%) | 57 (75%) | 11 (35%) | 26 (67%) | 26 (47%) | 83 (72%) |
| Male | 9 (38%) | 19 (25%) | 20 (65%) | 13 (33%) | 29 (53%) | 32 (28%) |
| Education | ||||||
| Less than a high school degree | 0 (0%) | 17 (22%) | 3 (10%) | 13 (33%) | 3 (5%) | 30 (26%) |
| High school or ged certificate | 2 (8%) | 30 (39%) | 7 (23%) | 13 (33%) | 9 (16%) | 43 (37%) |
| Two-year college or technical school degree | 10 (42%) | 12 (16%) | 10 (32%) | 6 (15%) | 20 (36%) | 18 (16%) |
| Some college/technical school, but have not graduated | 3 (12%) | 14 (18%) | 2 (6%) | 4 (10%) | 5 (9%) | 18 (16%) |
| Four-year college or technical school degree | 5 (21%) | 2 (3%) | 6 (19%) | 2 (5%) | 11 (20%) | 4 (3%) |
| More than four-year college degree | 3 (12%) | 1 (1%) | 3 (10%) | 1 (3%) | 6 (11%) | 2 (2%) |
| Missing | 1 (4.2%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1.8%) | 0 (0%) |
| Employment | ||||||
| Not employed/Homemaker | 3 (12%) | 10 (13%) | 3 (10%) | 4 (10%) | 6 (11%) | 14 (12%) |
| On disability | 9 (38%) | 34 (45%) | 9 (29%) | 19 (49%) | 18 (33%) | 53 (46%) |
| Retired | 9 (38%) | 22 (29%) | 10 (32%) | 8 (21%) | 19 (35%) | 30 (26%) |
| Student | 1 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (5%) | 1 (2%) | 2 (2%) |
| Working full-time | 0 (0%) | 3 (4%) | 3 (10%) | 2 (5%) | 3 (5%) | 5 (4%) |
| Working part-time | 1 (4%) | 5 (7%) | 4 (13%) | 3 (8%) | 5 (9%) | 8 (7%) |
| Other | 1 (4%) | 2 (3%) | 2 (6%) | 1 (3%) | 3 (5%) | 3 (3%) |
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. 1LTF indicates loss to follow-up.