Table 1.
Comparison of Baseline Characteristics Between the Treatment and the Control Groups
| Treatment N = 63
|
Control N = 56
|
Pa | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Gender: | .603 | ||||
| Man | 30 | 48% | 24 | 43% | |
| Woman | 33 | 52% | 32 | 57% | |
| Marital status: | .725 | ||||
| Single | 46 | 73% | 42 | 76% | |
| Married | 7 | 11% | 7 | 13% | |
| Divorced | 10 | 16% | 6 | 11% | |
| Education: | .009 | ||||
| Less than high school | 3 | 5% | 6 | 11% | |
| High school | 53 | 90% | 36 | 67% | |
| Academic | 3 | 5% | 12 | 22% | |
| Age (M ± SD) | 39 ± 12.1 | 44 ± 12.3 | .038 | ||
| min-max | 20–69 | 20–68 | |||
Note. SD = standard deviation.
a
Differences between the groups were tested with chi-square test for categorical variables and with two sample t test for continuous variables.