Table 3.

Background variables with operational definitions, sample size, means, standard deviations and percentages

Variable	Operational Definitions	Analysis	N	Mean	SD
Age	A continuous variable of chronological years.		84	43	10
Hospitalizations	Continuous variable measuring lifetime number of hospitalizations	Hospitalizations	84	8.8	12.3
		Truncated & Transformed		2.53	0.7
Duration/Years of treatment	Continuous variable measuring years since first receiving mental health treatment	Years of treatment	84	20	11
		Transformed by square root.	84	4.3	1.3
		N	Category	%
Employment	Two employment categories including unemployed and other.	84	Unemployed	(69%)
			Other	(31%)
Gender	Two gender categories including male and female.	84	Male	(58%)
			Female	(42%)
Race	Two race categories including African-American and other.	84
	African-Am = 1		Af-Am	(25%)
	Other = 0		Other	(75%)
Marital status	Two marital status categories including: single and other.	84
	Single = 1		Single	(93%)
	Other = 0		Other	(7%)
Housing	Two housing categories including	84
	Independent = 1		Independent	(76%)
	Other = 0		Other	(24%)
Household income level	Two Income categories:	84
	1 = <$10,000		<$10,000:	(76%)
	0 = > or = $10,000		> or = $10,000	(24%)
Education	Four education categories including: some high-school, graduated high school, some college and graduated college.	84	Some high school:	(14%)
			High school grad:	(30%)
			Some college:	(35%)
			College grad:	(21%)
Rurality:	Two rurality categories including: major cities zip codes and others.	84
Rural = 1			Rural:	(17%)
Nonrural = 0			Non-rural:	(83%)
Prescriber	Two categories including	84	Physician	(77%)
	1 = Nurse practitioner		Nurse Practitioner	(23%)
	0 = Physician