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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Educ. 2012 Dec;27(4):612–617. doi: 10.1007/s13187-012-0419-z

Table 1. Demographic baseline and follow-up comparison of breast and prostate cancer arms for women of all ages.

All women BL-BC BL-PC FU-BC FU-PC
Age n (SD) n (SD) n (SD) n (SD)
Mean (SD) 49.07 (11.97) 47.93 (11.99) 49.56 (11.91) 48.27 (12.02)
Median 48.09 47.99 48.30 48.33
Mode 45 49 44 49
Range 21–101 20–90 22–101 20–90
Education n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
High school or less 269 (33.3) 244 (34.8) 181 (34.6) 160 (36.0)
Some college or vocational school 126 (15.6) 120 (17.1) 85 (16.3) 77 (17.3)
Completed college 303 (37.5) 241 (34.4) 185 (35.4) 143 (32.1)
Graduate school or more 109 (13.5) 96 (13.7) 72 (13.8) 65 (14.6)
Unspecified 6 8 4 3
Full sample 807 (100.0) 701 (100.0) 523 (100.0) 445 (100.0)
Ethnic group n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Chinese 189 (23.2) 192 (27.1) 120 (22.8) 128 (28.6)
Filipino 238 (29.3) 176 (24.8) 140 (26.6) 103 (23.0)
Korean 203 (25.0) 168 (23.7) 126 (23.9) 98 (21.9)
Vietnamese 183 (22.5) 173 (24.4) 141 (26.8) 119 (26.6)
Full sample 813 (100.0) 709 (100.0) 527 (100.0) 448 (100.0)
English as the native language n (%)a n (%)a n (%)a n (%)a
Chinese 25 (3.1) 26 (3.7) 12 (2.3) 19 (4.3)
Filipino 56 (6.9) 46 (6.5) 32 (6.1) 24 (5.4)
Korean 28 (3.5) 20 (2.8) 11 (2.1) 12 (2.7)
Vietnamese 4 (0.5) 4 (0.6) 3 (0.6) 2 (0.4)
Total 113 (14.0) 96 (13.6) 58 (11.1) 57 (12.8)

BL baseline, FU follow-up, BC breast, PC prostate

a

Percentage from total