Table 3.
Variable | Operational Definitions | Analysis | N | Mean | SD |
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Age | A continuous variable of chronological years. | 84 | 43 | 10 | |
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Hospitalizations | Continuous variable measuring lifetime number of hospitalizations | Hospitalizations | 84 | 8.8 | 12.3 |
Truncated & Transformed | 2.53 | 0.7 | |||
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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 | ||
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N | Category | % | |||
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Employment | Two employment categories including unemployed and other. | 84 | Unemployed | (69%) | |
Other | (31%) | ||||
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Gender | Two gender categories including male and female. | 84 | Male | (58%) | |
Female | (42%) | ||||
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Race | Two race categories including African-American and other. | 84 | |||
African-Am = 1 | Af-Am | (25%) | |||
Other = 0 | Other | (75%) | |||
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Marital status | Two marital status categories including: single and other. | 84 | |||
Single = 1 | Single | (93%) | |||
Other = 0 | Other | (7%) | |||
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Housing | Two housing categories including | 84 | |||
Independent = 1 | Independent | (76%) | |||
Other = 0 | Other | (24%) | |||
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Household income level | Two Income categories: | 84 | |||
1 = <$10,000 | <$10,000: | (76%) | |||
0 = > or = $10,000 | > or = $10,000 | (24%) | |||
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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%) | ||||
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Rurality: | Two rurality categories including: major cities zip codes and others. | 84 | |||
Rural = 1 | Rural: | (17%) | |||
Nonrural = 0 | Non-rural: | (83%) | |||
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Prescriber | Two categories including | 84 | Physician | (77%) | |
1 = Nurse practitioner | Nurse Practitioner | (23%) | |||
0 = Physician |