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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2011 Mar-Apr;60(2):115–123. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e3182097813

Table 4.

Descriptive Results of External Variables for Incontinent Women by Cluster

Conventional (n = 89) Benchmark (n = 84) Superplus (n = 15) p
Bladder irritants intake (oz) 859.1±502.9 1286.5±684.4 2264.3±1373.8 <.001
Proportion of irritants of total intake 0.63±0.26 0.59±0.28 0.61±0.31 .88
Incontinence severity (episodes/day) 1.8±1.7 2.2±2.9 3.5±2.4 .02
Age (years) 48.6±8.2 50.1±7.8 52.2±6.5 .19
Education level (years) 14.1±2.0 14.3±2.0 13.3±2.4 .20
Race .002
 Black 58(65.2%) 34(40.5%) 5(33.3%)
 White 31(34.8%) 50(59.5%) 10(66.7%)

Notes. For continuous variables, p values were computed by ANOVA test. Results are expressed as mean ± standard error; for categorical variables (i.e., race).

p values were computed by chi-square test and results are expressed as numbers (percentages).