Table 4.

Baseline demographics: comparison between preferring Group and preferring Self Directed format

Variables	Preferring SD (n=175)	Preferring G (n=321)	P-Value
Age:	72.23	72.04	0.75
Race (% Caucasian)	84.4 %	85.3 %	0.80
Education			0.30
<HS %	15.4 %	14.3 %
=HS %	47.4 %	41.4 %
>HS %	37.1 %	44.2 %
Employed %	16.57 %	10.28 %	0.043*
Income (% >$20K)	59.88 %	61.82 %	0.68
Married %	56.00 %	49.22 %	0.149
Living Alone %	33.53 %	38.13 %	0.311
SIP physical score (0–100)	10.02	8.72	0.64
SIP psychosocial score (0–100)	7.798	7.238	0.64
6-minute walk (ft walked)	699.3	762.2	0.194
Cardiac symptom number (0–5)	0.965	1.140	0.097
Cardiac symptom frequency (0–25)	2.846	3.379	0.086
Cardiac symptom bother (0–25)	3.126	3.614	0.088

^*p≤0.05