Table 1.
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.
Other ethnicity includes Hispanic, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander.