Table 1.
Sample demographics. Less than 6% of respondents had missing data on any item except for annual income (9%).
| Current patients (n=95) |
Former patients (n=100) |
Community members (n=567) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Age (standard deviation) | 55.44 (15.01) | 50.09 (17.34) | 54.15 (16.03) |
| Gender | |||
| % Female | 50% | 47% | 64% |
| Race | |||
| % Non White | 12% | 5% | 28% |
| Mean Number of months since colostomy (standard deviation) |
50.49 (67.68) | 31.08 (17.32) | n/a |
| Median annual income (1-7) | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 = < $10K | |||
| 2 = $10K—$25K | |||
| 3 = $25K—$40K | |||
| 4 = $40K—60K | |||
| 5 = $60K—$80K | |||
| 6 = $80K—$100K | |||
| 7 = > $100k | |||
| Cause of colostomy/ileostomy | n/a | ||
| Inflammatory bowel disease | 29 | 42 | |
| Familial adenomatous polypsis | 3 | 4 | |
| Cancer | 41 | 11 | |
| Trauma/accident | 1 | 5 | |
| Spinal cord injury | 1 | 0 | |
| Other cause* | 13 | 26 | |
| More than one reason listed | 5 | 11 |
*
The most commonly cited reasons in this category involved various types of infections and surgical complications.