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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009 Jun;17(6):465–472. doi: 10.1097/jgp.0b013e3181987747

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the sample.

No
diagnosis
(n = 21)
Worried
well
(n = 33)
GAD
(n = 31)
GAD and
depression
(n = 25)
p value
Age, mean (S.D.) 73.2 (8.8) 71.0 (6.6) 69.9 (7.3) 67.6 (6.7) .08
Education, mean (S.D.) 14.1 (2.8) 14.4 (3.4) 13.7 (2.6) 13.4 (2.4) .56
% Males 33.3 36.4 9.7 20.0 .06
Marital status .59
   % Never married 9.5 3.0 0.0 4.0
   % Married 61.9 42.4 50.0 48.0
   % Widowed 28.6 33.3 30.0 36.0
   % Divorced/separated 0.0 21.3 20.0 12.0
Race .39
   % White 90.5 68.8 80.6 72.0
   % African American 9.5 25.0 12.9 12.0
   % Native American 0.0 6.3 6.5 12.0
   % Hispanic 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0
Health
   % Cardiac diseases 19.0 12.1 12.9 24.0 .60
   % Endocrine diseases 33.3 21.2 25.8 40.0 .43
   % Gastrointestinal diseases 9.5 18.2 29.0 48.0 .02
   % Pain 61.9 69.7 67.7 84.0 .38
   % Pulmonary diseases 14.3 6.1 22.6 36.0 .03
Medications
   % Benzodiazepines 4.8 24.2 35.5 52.0 .004
   % SSRIs 9.5 6.1 12.9 28.0 .12
   % Other anti-depressants 0.0 6.1 3.2 16.0 .12
  % Other sleep aids 4.8 3.0 6.5 12.0 .56