. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2009 Sep 30;79(2):152–155. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.09.004

Table 1. Population Demographics and Motivation to Quit.

		Overall N (%)	Mean Scores Motivation to Quit (SD)	P-Value

Motivation Score, mean ± SD		6.85 ± 2.7	______	______

Child Age in years, mean ± SD		7.13 ± 1.97	^ˆ R=.051	.461

Child Gender	Male	121 (58)	6.94 (2.75)	.567
Child Gender	Female	88 (42)	6.73 (2.56)

Medicaid	Yes	163 (78)	6.89 (2.78)	.909
Medicaid	No	46 (22)	6.84 (2.64)

Parent Race	White	38 (18)	6.53 (2.78)	.353
	Black	120 (58)	6.77 (2.58)
	Other	51 (24)	7.29 (2.77)

Parent Hispanic	Yes	44 (21)	7.20 (2.82)	.331
Parent Hispanic	No	164 (79)	6.76 (2.63)

Parent Age in years, mean ± SD		33.59 ± 7.25	^ˆ R=.058	.400

Parent Education	< HS	101 (48)	7.07 (2.75)	.255
Parent Education	≥ HS	108 (52)	6.65 (2.58)

Parent Employed	Yes	125 (63)	6.82 (2.53)	.162
Parent Employed	No	74 (37)	6.99 (2.87)

Number of Children in the Home, mean ± SD		2.71 ± 1.37	^ˆ R=.121	.081

Child's Asthma Severity	Mild Intermittent	67 (32)	6.64 (2.80)	.436
Child's Asthma Severity	Persistent	142 (68)	6.95 (2.60)

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Correlation coefficient