Table 1.
Participant demographic and descriptive information
| Variable | Range or Number |
Mean or Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Age in years | 22, 77 | 49.16 |
| Sex | ||
| Men | 22 | 73% |
| Women | 8 | 27% |
| Ethnicity | ||
| White | 25 | 83% |
| Black | 1 | 3% |
| Asian | 1 | 3% |
| Hispanic | 2 | 7% |
| More than one race* | 1 | 3% |
| Highest education level | ||
| Some high school | 1 | 3% |
| High school or GED | 3 | 10% |
| Some college | 11 | 37% |
| College graduate | 12 | 40% |
| Graduate school | 3 | 10% |
| Marital status | ||
| Married | 8 | 27% |
| Divorced | 5 | 17% |
| Unmarried, living with partner | 3 | 10% |
| Never married | 14 | 47% |
| Pain type | ||
| Neuropathic | 11 | 37% |
| Nociceptive | 2 | 7% |
| Mixed | 17 | 57% |
| ASIA Impairment Score† | ||
| Level 1 | 17 | 59% |
| Level 2 | 5 | 17% |
| Level 3 | 2 | 7% |
| Level 4 | 5 | 17% |
*
One subject described himself as White and American Indian.
†
One subject’s sensation deficit was not clearly attributable to SCI, so the evaluating physician was unable to assign level by clinical exam, although the SCI diagnosis was confirmed by radiographical exam.
ASIA = American Spinal Injury Association; GED = graduate equivalency degree; SCI = spinal cord injury.