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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2010 Aug 10;81S1:S22–S33. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.07.019

Table 1.

Demographics of the study population by gender, N=771

Demographics Male =361
Female =410
E SC Total p E SC Total p
Age, mean (SD) 55.1 (7.6) 54.2 (7.7) 54.7 (7.6) .29 56.6 (8.0) 55.9 (8.4) 56.3 (8.2) .43
    32-50, % 32.8 38.8 35.7 .24 27.0 31.5 29.2 .31
    51-79, % 67.2 61.2 61.2 73.0 68.5 70.8
Education,%
    Not completed HS 14.1 13.5 13.8 .88 9.4 12.6 11.0 .12
    Graduated HS 24.9 28.7 26.8 22.3 30.2 26.2
    Some college 35.0 32.5 33.8 41.1 37.2 39.1
    College/ graduate degree 26.0 25.3 25.6 27.2 20.1 23.7
Income, %
    <$10,000 16.7 17.9 17.3 .77 16.3 16.3 16.3 .99
    $10,000-$19,999 14.8 18.5 16.7 22.3 23.4 22.8
    $20,000-$39,999 24.1 20.1 21.9 31.0 30.4 30.7
    $40,000-$59,999 17.9 15.4 16.7 18.5 16.8 17.7
    >$60,000 26.5 28.4 27.5 12.0 13.0 12.5
Employed,
    No 52.8 46.3 49.6 .22 50.3 53.0 51.6 .58
    Yes 47.2 53.7 50.4 49.7 47.0 48.4
Marital status, %
    Single 26.8 27.7 27.3 .94 25.0 27.0 26.0 .65
    Married/ partnered 50.8 51.4 51.1 27.9 30.5 29.2
    Divorced/ separated/ widowed 22.4 20.9 21.6 47.0 42.5 44.8
Insurance status, %
    Out of pocket/ Govt. clinics/ un-insured 33.1 40.4 36.6 .20 26.4 22.6 24.5 .42
    Some insurance 66.9 59.6 63.4 73.6 77.4 75.5

All values presented are in percentages except age (as mean and standard deviation) P-values: Pearson's chi-square test for categorical variables (Fisher's exact test when cell sizes are small) and student t-test for comparing age