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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013 May;24(2):10.1353/hpu.2013.0081. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0081

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Characteristics Frequency (%) or M (SD) (n = 83)
Gender
    Men 39 (47.0)
    Women 44 (53.0)
Mean age in years 38.8 (13.2)
    18-39 45 (54.2)
    ≥ 40 38 (45.8)
Education
    Never attended - high school graduate or GED 41 (49.4)
    Some college or more 42 (50.6)
Married 68 (81.9)
Foreign-born 51 (61.4)
Have health insurance 69 (83.1)
Have a primary health care provider 51 (61.4)
Does seek preventive care 44 (53.0)
English proficiency
    Understand pretty well – very well (n = 72) 58 (80.6)
    Speak pretty well – very well (n = 81) 63 (77.7)
    Read pretty well – very well 60 (72.2)
    Write pretty well – very well 58 (69.9)
Hmong proficiency
    Understand pretty well – very well (n = 71) 69 (97.2)
    Speak pretty well – very well (n = 82) 64 (78.0)
    Read pretty well – very well 41 (49.4)
    Write pretty well – very well 33 (39.8)