Table 2.
Demographics, comorbidities, functional disability, socioeconomic status by serious mental distress status among 8,339 community dwelling stroke survivors from the National Health Interview Survey 2000–2010.
| Total sample N=8,339 |
No serious mental distress N=7,532 |
Serious mental distress N=792 |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, y, mean (95% CI) N=8,339 |
66 65–66 |
66 66–67 |
59 58–61 |
<0.01 |
| Female N=8,339 |
54% | 53% | 62% | <0.01 |
| Married N=8,317 |
53% | 54% | 44% | <0.01 |
| Comorbidities mean (95% CI) N=8,204 |
1.7 1.6–1.7 |
1.6 1.6–1.7 |
1.9 1.8–2.0 |
<0.01 |
| Functional disability mean (95% CI) N=8,241 |
5.1 5.0–5.2 |
4.8 4.7–4.9 |
8.2 7.9–8.5 |
<0.01 |
| Saw/talked to mental health professional in last year N=8,270 |
10% | 8% | 32% | <0.01 |
| Saw/talked to general doctor last year n=8,271 |
88% | 88% | 89% | 0.79 |
| Education N=8,231 | <0.01 | |||
| 8th grade or less | 13% | 12% | 19% | |
| High school | 49% | 49% | 56% | |
| Some College | 24% | 24% | 19% | |
| College Graduate | 9% | 10% | 4% | |
| Advanced degree | 5% | 5% | 2% | |
| Insurance Status N=8,321 | <0.01 | |||
| Private | 19% | 19% | 14% | |
| Medicare | 51% | 52% | 31% | |
| Medicaid | 16% | 14% | 31% | |
| Military | 8% | 8% | 10% | |
| Uninsured | 6% | 6% | 13% | |