TABLE 1.
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICIPANTS
| Measures | Overall N = 144 |
Intervention N =73 |
Control N =71 |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | ||||
| Age (years), mean(std)§ | 53.7 (12.2) | 53.7 (11.7) | 53.6 (12.7) | 0.97 |
| Female, N(%)* | 97 (67.4) | 47 (64.4) | 50 (70.4) | 0.60 |
| Education, N(%)* | 0.88 | |||
| Less than Elementary School (≤5 yrs) | 48 (33.3) | 24 (32.9) | 24 (33.8) | |
| Elementary School (6 yrs) | 33 (22.9) | 158 (24.7) | 15 (21.1) | |
| Some High School (7–11 yrs) | 22 (15.3) | 11 (15.1) | 11 (15.5) | |
| High school or equivalent (12 yrs) | 30 (20.8) | 16 (21.9) | 14 (19.7) | |
| Some college (≥ 13 yrs) | 11 (7.6) | 4 (5.5) | 7 (9.9) | |
| Marital Status, N(%)* | 0.54 | |||
| Married/Common Law Marriage | 94 (65.3) | 44 (60.3) | 50 (70.4) | |
| Separated/Divorced | 19 (13.2) | 12 (16.4) | 7 (9.9) | |
| Widowed | 12 (8.3) | 6 (8.2) | 6 (8.5) | |
| Never married | 19 (13.2) | 11 (15.1) | 8 (11.3) | |
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| Economic | ||||
| Difficulty paying for basics, N(%)* | 0.23 | |||
| Very hard | 31 (24.0) | 12 (18.8) | 19 (29.2) | |
| Somewhat hard | 61 (47.3) | 30 (46.9) | 31 (47.7) | |
| Not hard at all | 37 (28.7) | 22 (34.4) | 15 (40.5) | |
| Insurance Status, N(%)* | 0.89 | |||
| Private | 41 (29.9) | 22 (31.4) | 19 (28.4) | |
| Medicare | 18 (13.1) | 8 (11.4) | 10 (14.9) | |
| Medicaid | 16 (11.7) | 9 (12.9) | 7 (10.5) | |
| None | 62 (45.3) | 31 (44.3) | 31 (46.3) | |
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| Acculturation | ||||
| Acculturation Score, mean(std)*^ | 1.6 (0.8) | 1.6 (0.8) | 1.6 (0.8) | 0.98 |
| Preferred Language: Spanish, N(%)* | 130 (90.3) | 67 (91.7) | 63 (88.7) | 0.52 |
| Born In Mexico, N(%)+ | 134 (93.1) | 65 (89.0) | 69 (97.2) | 0.10 |
§
p-value from unequal variance t-test
*
p-value from chi-square test
+
p-value from fisher’s exact test
^
Ranges from 1 (low acculturation)-5 (high acculturation)