. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 19.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Health. 2012 Sep 13;28(4):355–368. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2012.722219

Table 1.

Participant characteristics (n=53).

Characteristic	n	%	M	SD	Range
Patient age			64.5	9.0	43-84
Spouse age			60.6	9.5	46-79
Patient ethnicity^a:
Caucasian	49	92.5
African American	3	5.7
Spanish/Latino/Hispanic	1	1.9
Spouse ethnicity^a:
Caucasian	50	94.3
African American	2	3.8
Spanish/Latino/Hispanic	1	1.9
Patient educational level^b:
Grade school	6	11.3
High school	17	32.1
College degree	18	34.0
Post graduate degree	12	22.6
Spouse educational level^b:
Grade school	1	1.9
High school	31	58.5
College degree	12	22.6
Post graduate degree	9	17.0
Days since diagnosis to Time 1			94.4	99.5	24-556
Type of treatment^c:
Radiation therapy	28	52.8
Surgery	14	26.4
Radioactive seed implantation	5	9.4
Surgery and radiation therapy	1	1.9
Radiation therapy and seed implantation	1	1.9
Radiation therapy and watchful waiting	1	1.9
Missing	3	5.7

Notes

For analyses, ethnicity was coded as 0=non-Caucasian, 1=Caucasian.

For analyses, educational level was coded as 0=less than college degree, 1=college degree or higher

For analyses, type of treatment was coded as 0=non-surgical treatment, 1=surgery