Table 2.
Social and Clinical Characteristics by Sample
| Mexican Americans 2000s |
Mexican Americans 1980s |
Anglo Americans 1970-80s |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N |
M or % |
SD | N |
M or % |
SD | N |
M or % |
SD | |
| Caregivers | |||||||||
| Age | 122 | 52.74 | 14.74 | 44 | 47.89 | 12.71 | |||
| Women | 126 | 83% | 44 | 80% | 54 | 70% | |||
| Parents | 125 | 62% | 44 | 71% | 54 | 89% | |||
| Born in Mexico | 100 | 72% | 44 | 68% | |||||
| Mainly Spanish | 126 | 60% | 44 | 68% | |||||
| Patients | |||||||||
| Age | 126 | 37.67 | 11.03 | 44 | 25.5 | 6.96 | 54 | 26.06 | 7.16 |
| Years Ill | 117 | 14.99 | 10.96 | 44 | 4.21 | 3.40 | 54 | 4.59 | 4.24 |
| Hospitalizations | 121 | 3.02 | 1.96 | 44 | 3.16 | 2.80 | 51 | 2.98 | 2.12 |
| Men | 126 | 66% | 44 | 57% | 54 | 76% | |||
| Born in Mexico | 121 | 56% | 44 | 59% | |||||
| Mainly Spanish | 126 | 42% | 44 | 39% | |||||