. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 2.

Published in final edited form as: Ann Behav Med. 2012 Oct;44(2):287–292. doi: 10.1007/s12160-012-9386-1

Table 1.

Sociodemographic and psychological characteristics of the study participants as function of childhood abuse history.

	Non-Abused N= 73	Abused N= 57	p-value
Age, mean (SD)	67.20 (13.74)	62.47 (12.07)	.06
Sex (N, % women)	61 (83.5%)	46 (80.7%)	.67
Ethnicity (% Caucasians)	59 (80.8%)	48 (84.2%)	.62
Caregiving status (% of caregivers)	29 (39.7%)	24 (42.1%)	.78
BMI, mean (SD)	26.3 (5.09)	27.76 (4.66)	.10
Marital status (% married)	37 (50.7%)	30 (52.6%)	.83
Education, n (%)			.89
At least some High School	22 (30.1%)	19 (33.3%)
At least some College	28 (38.4%)	22 (38.6%)
Graduate or professional school	23 (31.5%)	16 (28.1%)
Depressive symptoms, mean (SD)	7.90 (7.02)	9.92 (9.69)	.26
Anxious symptoms, mean (SD)	4.14 (.54)	5.89 (.61)	.09
Sleep disturbances, mean (SD)	4.87 (2.53)	6.00 (2.99)	.04^*

denotes a statistically significant group difference.