Table 2.

HS-EAST Item-Level and Scale-Level Summaries.

	n	Final scale	Total	Northern Plains	South Central	χ2
Do you have anyone who spends time with you, taking you shopping or to the doctor? (Reversed)	99	*	65%	78%	51%	7.88**
Are you helping to support someone?	100	*	42%	52%	32%	4.10*
Are you sad or lonely?	98	*	24%	26%	21%	0.36
Who makes decisions about your life—Like how you should live or where you should live? (Someone else making decisions indicates risk)	100		33%	48%	18%	10.18***
Do you feel uncomfortable with anyone in your family?	94	*	15%	18%	12%	0.71
Can you take your own medication and/or get around by yourself? (2 items combined and then reversed)	100	*	3%	6%	0%	3.09
Do you feel that nobody wants you around?	99	*	13%	22%	4%	6.97**
Does anyone in your family drink a lot?	100	*	35%	48%	22%	7.43**
Does someone in your family make you stay in bed or tell you you’re sick when you’re not	100	*	2%	4%	0%	2.04
Has anyone forced you to do thing you didn’t want to do?	100	*	4%	2%	6%	1.04
Has anyone take things that belonged to you without your OK?	100	*	24%	32%	16%	3.51
Do you trust most of the people in your family? (Reversed)	100	*	11%	18%	4%	5.01*
Does anyone tell you that you give them too much trouble?	100	*	4%	4%	4%	0.00
Do you have enough privacy at home? (Reversed)	100	*	3%	6%	0%	3.09
Has anyone close to you tried to hurt or harm you recently	98		1%	0%	2%	Na
Cronbach’s α (includes items with *)	90		0.74	0.67	0.59
Mean of Final HS-EAST scale (includes items with *)	100		0.19	0.24	0.13	3.79***
Count of HS-EAST items	100		2.43	3.14	1.72	3.69***
Percentage at risk for abuse, neglect, exploitation	100		41%	54%	28%	6.99**

Note. HS-EAST = Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test. Boldface indicates a significantly higher endorsement rate of the item among the Northern Plains sample compared to the Southcentral group.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.