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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2008 Dec 4;75(2):220–226. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.10.010

Table 2.

Patient Participants Characteristics

N=129 Percent of total sample
Age
 18–34yr 39.06
 35–49yr 40.63
 50–64yr 17.19
 ≥65y 3.13

Gender
 Male 40.31
 Female 59.69

Race/Ethnicity
 Non-Latino White 38.76
 Latino 49.61
 Non-Latino Black 11.63

Education
 ≤11yr 34.65
 12yr 23.62
 13–15yr 28.35
 ≥16yr 13.39

Household Annual Income (in US $)
 <15,000 64.29
 15–35,000 19.84
 35–75,000 11.90
 ≥75,000 3.97

Employment Status
 Employed 45.31
 Unemployed 23.44
 Other/Out of the
 labor force 31.25

Insurancei
 No insurance 4.69
 Private 13.28
 Medicare 14.06
 Medicate 50.00
 Other 17.97

US born
 US born 47.24
 Other than US born 52.76
i

Private insurance: Health insurance obtained privately or through an employer.

Medicare: The U.S. government’s health insurance program for people age 65 or older.

Medicaid: The U.S. government’s health insurance program for low-income people.

Other insurance: Military health care and/or other special state program.