Table 1.
Sample description of study groups and assessment of potential confounders at baseline (n=81 for Family Member sample, n=224 for General Population sample)
| Frequency (%) in full sample |
Frequency (%) in Family Member sample |
Frequency (%) in General Population sample |
P-value comparing both samples |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic | ||||
| Sex | 0.81 | |||
| Female | 200 (65.6) | 54 (66.7) | 146 (65.2) | |
| Male | 105 (34.4) | 27 (33.3) | 78 (34.8) | |
| Ethnicity | 0.01 | |||
| Black | 93 (30.7) | 16 (19.7) | 77 (34.4) | |
| Non-Black | 210 (69.3) | 65 (80.3) | 147 (65.6) | |
| Marital Status | 0.18 | |||
| Married | 203 (66.6) | 49 (60.5) | 154 (68.7) | |
| Not Married | 102 (33.4) | 32 (39.5) | 70 (31.3) | |
| Education | <0.001 | |||
| Not a High School Grad | 37 (12.2) | 4 (4.9) | 33 (14.8) | |
| High School | 93 (30.6) | 16 (19.7) | 77 (34.5) | |
| Some College or Tech School |
83 (27.3) | 19 (23.5) | 64 (28.7) | |
| College or More | 91 (29.9) | 42 (51.9) | 49 (22.0) | |
| Town | <0.001 | |||
| In Town | 82 (27.0) | 36 (44.4) | 46 (20.6) | |
| Not in Town | 222 (73.0) | 45 (55.6) | 177 (79.4) | |
| Eating Out | 0.08 | |||
| No Meals Out | 161 (54.6) | 38 (46.9) | 132 (58.9) | |
| One Meal Out | 85 (28.8) | 23 (28.4) | 62 (27.7) | |
| Two Meals Out | 42 (14.2) | 18 (22.2) | 25 (11.2) | |
| All Meals Out | 7 (2.4) | 2 (2.5) | 5 (2.2) | |
| Mean (SE) in full sample |
Mean (SE) in Family Member sample |
Mean (SD) in General Population Sample |
P-value comparing both samples |
|
| Age (years) | 48.5 (0.8) | 46.8 (1.4) | 49.1 (0.9) | 0.20 |
|
Responsibility for Shopping/
Planning/Preparing Meals |
7.3 (0.1) | 7.5 (0.2) | 7.3 (0.1) | 0.46 |
| Family Social Support (FSS) | 12.8 (0.3) | 12.1 (0.6) | 13.0 (0.3) | 0.15 |
| Months Since Last Dr Visit | 4.4 (0.6) | 5.6 (0.9) | 3.9 (0.4) | 0.10 |
| Weekly Hours Watching TV | 13.4 (0.6) | 12.2 (1.0) | 13.9 (0.7) | 0.22 |