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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Dec 17.
Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2004 Oct;13(10):709–728. doi: 10.1002/pon.785

Table 3.

Focus group demographics

African American N=10 Asian American N=10 Caucasian N=5 Latina N=26
Current age (years)
 Mean (range) 33 (22–57) 48 (35–60) 56 (45–73) 47 (36–66)
Marital status
 Single 60% 10% 20% 30%
 Married 20% 90% 40% 48%
 Divorced 0% 0% 20% 9%
 Widowed 20% 0% 20% 13%
Number of children
 Mean (range) 1 (0–3) 1 (0–3) 3 (2–3) 5 (1–10)
Years since Dx
 Mean (range) <1 (0–1) 2 (1–9) 5 (1–9) 2 (0–10)
Stage
Dysplasia
 CIN 1 0% 10% 0% 8%
 CIN 2 0% 10% 0% 13%
 CIN 3 0% 30% 0% 0%
 CIN unspecified 100%
Cancer
 I 0% 0% 20% 4%
 II 0% 10% 40% 8%
 III 0% 0% 20% 17%
 IV 0% 10% 0% 13%
 Unknown 0% 30% 0% 38%
Treatmenta
 Surgery 0% 50% 80% 50%
 Radiation 0% 20% 80% 38%
 Chemotherapy 0% 0% 0% 54%
 Hormone 0% 20% 0% 8%
 Biopsy only 60% 0% 0% 0%
 Not specified/ 40% 20% 0% 21%
 Don’t know
Obtained second opinion
 Yes 20% 30% 60% 38%
 No 80% 70% 40% 62%
a

Respondents may report more than one treatment.