Table 1.
Demographics and comparisons of patients with and without material need insecurity
| Overall N=411 |
Food Insecurity N=80 |
Cost-related Medication Underuse N=104 |
Housing Instability N=44 |
Energy Insecurity N=72 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (y) mean (SD) | 62.0 (11.0) | 56.4 (10.6) | 57.4 (11.5) | 55.0 (13.5) | 57.1 (10.8) |
| Female (%) | 47.5 | 51.3 | 47.1 | 52.3 | 47.2 |
| Race/ethnicity (%) | |||||
| NH white | 78.6 | 65.0 | 65.4 | 47.7 | 59.7 |
| NH black | 7.8 | 15.0 | 14.4 | 15.9 | 16.6 |
| Hispanic | 9.3 | 16.3 | 15.4 | 34.1 | 18.0 |
| Asian/other | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 2.3 | 5.6 |
| Education (%) | |||||
| <HS diploma | 14.4 | 21.3 | 26.0 | 22.7 | 20.8 |
| HS diploma | 26.8 | 18.8 | 23.1 | 27.3 | 26.4 |
| >HS diploma | 58.9 | 60.0 | 51.0 | 50.0 | 52.8 |
| Insurance (%) | |||||
| Commercial | 50.6 | 38.5 | 38.2 | 35.7 | 37.5 |
| Medicare | 26.9 | 29.5 | 35.5 | 31.0 | 26.4 |
| Medicaid | 13.3 | 21.8 | 22.6 | 16.7 | 22.2 |
| Free care | 4.6 | 7.7 | 9.8 | 16.7 | 9.7 |
| None/self-pay | 4.1 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 4.2 |
| Low health literacy(%) | 28.1 | 38.2 | 43.3 | 45.4 | 33.3 |
| Born outside U.S. (%) | 20.4 | 30.0 | 29.8 | 40.9 | 31.5 |
| Spanish survey (%) | 5.1 | 8.8 | 7.7 | 20.5 | 9.7 |
| Charlson score, mean (SD) | 4.9 (3.0) | 5.2 (3.3) | 4.8 (2.9) | 4.2 (2.8) | 5.1 (3.1) |
| HbA1c tests/year, mean (SD) | 2.6 (1.1) | 2.6 (1.09) | 2.6 (1.1) | 2.8 (1.1) | 2.5 (1.1) |
| Age at diabetes diagnosis, mean (SD) | 50.0 (14.2) | 45.9 (14.0) | 45.8 (15.1) | 43.8 (15.4) | 45.6 (10.5) |
| Number of ‘insecurities’ (%) | |||||
| 0 | 60.3 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 1 | 17.4 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2 | 12.9 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 3 | 7.2 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 4 | 2.2 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
*
Bold values represent p<0.05 in ‘insecure’ category compared with ‘secure’ counterpart