Table 1.

Demographic characteristics

	Study participants (n=231)	Active participants (n=95)	Inactive participants (n=134)
Age
Mean (SD)	51.58 (11.81)	48.48 (11.12)	54.01 (11.64)
Ethnicity
Caucasian	144 (62.3%)	74 (77.9%)	68 (50.7%)
African American	83 (35.9%)	21 (22.1%)	62 (46.3%)
Other minorities	4 (1.7%)	0 (0%)	4 (2.9%)
Live alone
Yes	63 (27.3%)	32 (33.7%)	31 (23.1%)
Education
Some junior high	2 (0.9%)	0 (0%)	2 (1.5%)
Some high school	24 (10.4%)	9 (9.5%)	15 (11.2%)
High school degree	72 (31.2%)	28 (29.5%)	43 (32.1%)
Some college	69 (29.9%)	30 (31.6%)	38 (28.4%)
Associate or technical degree	28 (12.1%)	15 (15.8%)	13 (9.7%)
Bachelor’s degree	28 (12.1%)	10 (10.5%)	18 (13.4%)
Graduate degree	8 (3.5%)	3 (3.2%)	5 (3.7%)
Stage of cancer
Early stage (stage 0,1,2)	162 (70.1%)	62 (65.3%)	98 (73.1%)

Note: Two outliers were excluded from ‘active’ group.