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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Jan 24;125:116–128. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.12.033

Table 1.

Sample descriptive statisticsa, INMHS.

n Prop Mean SD Range
Panel A: full sampleb
Egos (n = 171)
 Gender (1 = female) 109 0.64
 Age (years) 30.56 10.17 18.00–72.00
 Race (1 = white) 125 0.73
 Education (years) 11.59 2.00 6.00–16.00
 Diagnosisc
   Schizophrenia 22 0.13
   Depression 101 0.59
# Of psychiatric symptoms 4.43 2.09 0.00–12.00
Alters and ties (n = 2593)
 Gender (1 = female) 0.56
 Age (ten years) 34.79 16.18 1–96
 Common mental health problem 0.06
 High trust in physicians (a lot) 0.12
 Suggested MH services 0.05
 Relationshipc
   Kin 0.55
   Friend 0.21
   Medical/MH prof 0.10
 Very close 0.43
 Frequent contact (often) 0.50
 Hassles or causes problems 0.11
 Alter activated as discussant 0.20
Whole networks (n = 171)
 Network size 15.50 6.20 5.00–37.00
 % Women 55.15 14.30 16.67–91.67
 % Kin 56.06 17.15 21.74–100.00
 Mean closeness 2.20 0.35 1.33–3.00
 Mean trust in physicians 2.26 0.42 1.00–3.00
Panel B: Subsampleb
Egos (n = 108)
  Gender (1 = female) 75 0.69
  Race (1 = white) 81 0.75
  Diagnosisc
   Schizophrenia 10 0.09
   Depression 67 0.62
  Quality of lifed (scale) 2.25 0.47 1.13–3.00
  Social satisfactiond (scale) 3.52 0.70 1.50–5.00
  Social role performanced (scale) 3.88 0.59 2.00–4.93
  GAFd (scale) 66.22 14.51 18.00–98.00
Health discussion networks
 Network size 3.59 2.16 1.00–10.00
 Mean closeness 2.64 0.44 1.00–3.00
 Mean trust in physicians 2.38 0.51 1.00–3.00
Inactivated networks
 Network size 12.40 5.76 2.00–30.00
 Mean closeness 2.08 0.37 1.17–3.00
 Mean trust in physicians 2.28 0.41 1.00–3.00
a

Full sample used in Table 2, subsample in Table 3.

b

Subsample includes those with ≥1 health discussant who are present in two waves. Dropped cases differ significantly only with respect to gender and size of the inactivated network.

c

Omitted category is other.

d

Outcomes measured at T2, all other variables at T1.