Table 2.

Differences in the percentage of respondents who prefer reduced lifespan over levels of depression or pain

	Female vs. Male		Age 55+ vs. 18 to 54		Hispanic vs. Non-Hispanic		Black vs. White*
Health Problem	%	p-value	%	p-value	%	p-value	%	p-value
Feeling worthless, helpless, depressed and hopeless
Often	5.9	<0.001	4.0	<0.001	1.9	0.204	−3.7	0.018
Sometimes	3.1	0.005	4.6	<0.001	3.3	0.047	1.5	0.383
Rarely	2.1	0.062	3.4	0.004	3.8	0.027	−0.2	0.916
Pain intensity scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain imaginable)
Pain Intensity 3	−1.5	0.160	−1.0	0.357	5.1	0.001	8.6	<0.001
Pain Intensity 2	−0.2	0.844	−0.1	0.886	5.2	0.001	11.8	<0.001
Pain Intensity 1	−0.6	0.518	1.1	0.304	6.4	<0.001	11.2	<0.001

^*Black and White subgroups exclude Hispanic adults and adult of other or mixed race.