Table 1.
Selected Baseline Characteristics of Study Participants (n=180)
| Variable of Interest | Latinos (N = 71) |
African Americans (N = 109) |
Everyone (N = 180) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women (N=53) |
Men (N=18) |
P valuea | Women (N=81) |
Men (N=28) |
P value | Women (N=134) |
Men (N=46) |
P value | |
| Age, mean (SD)b | 53.7 (13.7) | 48.6 (17.0) | 0.20 | 59.5 (12.8) | 59.0 (12.6) | 0.84 | 57.2 (13.4) | 54.9 (15.2) | 0.33 |
| Education, n(%) | 0.49 | 0.61 | 0.39 | ||||||
| <HS | 41 (77.4) | 16 (88.9) | 22 (27.2) | 9 (32.1) | 63 (47.0) | 25 (54.3) | |||
| HS | 12 (22.6) | 2 (11.1) | 59 (72.8) | 19 (67.9) | 71 (53.0) | 21 (45.7) | |||
| Marital Status, n(%) | 0.05 | <0.01 | <0.01 | ||||||
| Single | 29 (54.7) | 5 (27.8) | 61 (75.3) | 9 (32.1) | 90 (67.2) | 14 (30.4) | |||
| Married/Partnered | 24 (45.3) | 13 (72.2) | 20 (24.7) | 19 (67.9) | 44 (32.8) | 32 (69.6) | |||
| Employment*, n(%) | 0.02 | 0.84 | 0.13 | ||||||
| Unemployed | 44 (86.3) | 11 (61.1) | 57 (74.0) | 18 (72.0) | 101 (78.9) | 29 (67.4) | |||
| Full/Part-time | 7 (13.7) | 7 (38.9) | 20 (26.0) | 7 (28.0) | 27 (21.1) | 14 (32.6) | |||
*
Omitted missing responses (N=2 Latinos, N=10 African Americans).
a
p-values were obtained using the t-test for continuous variables, Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables with expected count < 5 in any cell, and Pearson’s chi-square test for all other categorical variables.
b
SD=Standard Deviation