Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population
| Patient characteristics | n (%) of total study population |
| Demographic characteristics | |
| Mean age in years (SD) | 45.2 (9.2) |
| Women | 128 (37.4) |
| Racial/ethnic background | |
| White | 310 (90.6) |
| Black | 19 (5.6) |
| Other1 | 13 (3.8) |
| Marital status | |
| Living with partner | 212 (62.0) |
| Living alone | 130 (38.0) |
| Education | |
| K-12 | 137 (40.1) |
| College | 205 (59.5) |
| Employment prior to diagnosis | |
| Employed | 296 (90.0) |
| Unemployed | 33 (10.0) |
| Current employment | |
| Employed | 217 (65.0) |
| Unemployed | 117 (35.0) |
| Population of hometown | |
| Rural | 220 (64.3) |
| Urban | 122 (35.7) |
| Interview to treatment status | |
| Before | 32 (9.4) |
| During | 93 (27.2) |
| After | 94 (27.5) |
| Naïve | 123 (36.0) |
| Clinical characteristics | |
| Current substance use | |
| Yes | 24 (7.0) |
| Total psychiatric diagnosis | |
| 0 | 251 (73.6) |
| 1 | 74 (21.7) |
| 2 | 14 (4.1) |
| 3-5 | 2 (0.6) |
| Advanced liver disease (cirrhosis) | 81 (23.8) |
| HCV due to IV drugs | 177 (62.3) |
| HCV due to other methods of transmission | 107 (37.7) |
| Mean Child-Pugh score (SD) | 5.46 (1.2) |
SD: Standard Deviation; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; IV: Intravenous.
1
Other ethnicity includes Hispanic, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander.