Table 2.

Social Network Characteristics of the Patients and their Network Members

	51 years or oldera		50 years or youngerb
	M (SD)	Range	M (SD)	Range
Network member–level variables
Frequency of emotional support	5.61 (1.72)	2–8	5.67 (2.17)	0–8
Strength of friendship baseline	3.61 (0.67)	1–4	3.29 (0.91)	1–4
In-degree of strong friendship	0.48 (0.30)	0–1	0.28 (0.23)	0–1
Patient-level variables
Network size (includes male ties)	5.58 (3.26)	2–13	7.64 (3.94)	1–15
Density of strong friendship	0.64 (0.25)	0.23–1	0.47 (0.27)	0.13–1
Proportion of family members	0.45 (0.32)	0–1	0.18 (0.19)	0–0.5
Proportion of female members	0.83 (0.17)	0.5–1.0	0.85 (0.15)	0.5–1.0
Network member–level variables (%)
Not enumerated at follow-up	4		16
Family member	44		18
Interviewed	65		67
Patient-level variables (%)
Fear of future	58		64

Notes: ^ans = 57 (female network members) and 12 (patients).

^bns = 92 (female network members) and 14 (patients).