Table 2.
Characteristics of Focus Group and Questionnaire Participants from Philadelphia Senior Centers
| Demographics | Focus group participants | PD Knowledge and attitude questionnaire participants |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White (N = 23) | African-American (N = 36) | Chinese-American (N =16)( | White (N = 62) | African-American (N = 47) | Chinese-American (N = 45) | |
| Mean age (s.d.) | 74.4 (9.8)3 | 75.0 (8.1) | 71.4 (4.8) | 76.8 (7.6)1 | 76.6 (8.8)2 | 74.8 (7.2)1 |
| % Female (n) | 52.2 (12) | 94.3 (33) | 75.0 (12) | 65.5 (38)1 | 83.3 (40) | 56.8 (25) |
| % Level of education completed (n) | ||||||
| Less than 9 years | 4.4 (1) | 14.3 (5) | 18.8 (3) | 8.5 (5) | 17.4 (8) | 30.8 (12)5 |
| Between 9–12 years | 56.5 (13) | 54.3 (19) | 25.0 (4) | 69.5 (41) | 71.7 (33) | 15.4 (6) |
| More than 12 years | 39.1 (9) | 31.4 (11) | 56.3 (9) | 22.0 (13) | 10.9 (5) | 53.8 (21) |
| % Socioeconomic Status (n) | ||||||
| Low | 9.1 (2)1 | 40.0 (14) | 25 (4) | 28.1 (16)2 | 30.4 (14)2 | 10.0 (4)4 |
| Middle | 54.6 (12) | 45.7 (16) | 68.8 (11) | 36.8 (21) | 43.5 (20) | 77.5 (31) |
| High | 36.4 (8) | 14.3 (5) | 6.3 (1)) | 35.1 (20) | 26.1 (12) | 12.5 (5) |
Superscript number represents number of missing data for that cell