TABLE 1.
Sample characteristics (N = 104)
| Age range, yrs | 18–64 |
| Mean age, yrs | 46.88 (SD = 14.15) |
| Gender, % | 72 M, 28 F |
| Marital status, % | |
| Married/living w/SO | 63 |
| Separated/divorced | 13 |
| Widow | 3 |
| Never married | 20 |
| Ethnicity, % | |
| White | 89 |
| Hispanic | 4 |
| Native American | 4 |
| African American | 1 |
| Other | 2 |
| Education level, % | |
| <12 years | 14 |
| 12 years | 19 |
| Voc/tech school | 10 |
| Some college | 31 |
| College graduate | 15 |
| Postgraduate | 9 |
| Employment status, %a | |
| Employed full or part time | 45 |
| School full or part time | 7 |
| Retired | 18 |
| Homemaker | 8 |
| Unemployed due to pain | 6 |
| Unemployed due to disability | 23 |
| Unemployed other | 13 |
| Reason for amputation, %a | |
| Injury | 83 |
| Infection | 8 |
| Vascular | 4 |
| Gangrene | 8 |
| Diabetes | 0 |
| Congenital | 1 |
| Other | 16 |
| Level of amputation, % | |
| Shoulder | 3 |
| Above elbow | 39 |
| Elbow | 3 |
| Below elbow | 32 |
| Wrist | 5 |
| Partial hand | 14 |
| Other | 3 |
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Multiple answers allowed and thus percentages add up to >100%.