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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Behav Policy Rev. 2016 Jan 1;3(1):54–61. doi: 10.14485/HBPR.3.1.6

Table 1. HealthStreet Participant Demographics and Musculoskeletal Comorbidities by Race and Self-Reported Lifetime Cocaine Use, Gainesville, Florida and St. Louis, Missouri (N = 7936).

African-American (N = 6145) Caucasian (N = 1791)

Demographics LT Cocaine Use (N = 951) No LT Cocaine Use (N = 5194) LT Cocaine Use (N = 453) No LT Cocaine Use (N = 1338)

N (%) N (%) p-value N (%) N (%) p-value
Site
 Florida 339 (35.7%) 2196 (42.3%) <.001 291 (64.2%) 927 (69.3) .047
 Missouri 612 (64.4%) 2998 (57.7%) 162 (35.8%) 411 (30.7)

Female 397 (41.8%) 3005 (57.9%) <.001 190 (42.0%) 760 (56.8) <.001

Hispanic/Latino 6 (0.6%) 41 (0.8%) NS 7 (1.6%) 39 (2.9%) NS

Mean Age (±SD), years 47.9 (±9.2) 37.9 (±14.5) <.001 42.8 (±12.2) 42.0 (±15.9) NS

Mean Years of Education (±SD) 11.9 (±1.8) 12.3 (±2.1) <.001 12.6 (±2.4) 13.3 (±2.7) <.001

Marital Status <.001 <.001
 Never Married 522 (54.9%) 3455 (66.5%) 201 (44.4%) 608 (45.4%)
 Married 116 (12.2%) 1003 62 (13.7%) 333 (24.9%)
 Separated/Divorce/Widowed 304 (32.0%) (19.3%) 189 (41.7%) 395 (29.5%)

Unemployed 702 (73.8%) 3077 (59.2%) <.001 316 (69.8%) 768 (57.4%) <.001

Veteran 165 (17.4%) 314 (6.1%) <.001 61 (13.5%) 138 (10.3%) NS

Medically Uninsured 506 (53.2) 2143 (41.3%) <.001 279 (61.6%) 533 (39.8%) <.001

Chronic Diseases, Infections, and Musculoskeletal Symptoms

Back Pain (BP) 398 (41.9%) 1456 (28.0%) <.001 215 (47.5%) 498 (37.2%) <.001

Arthritis 320 (33.7%) 939 (18.1%) <.001 153 (33.8%) 371 (27.7%) .04

Hypertension 405 (42.6%) 1433 (27.6%) <.001 108 (23.8%) 341 (25.5%) NS

Type II Diabetes 89 (9.4%) 418 (8.1%) 0.048 28 (6.2%) 103 (7.7%) NS

Any Lifetime Hepatitis 87 (9.2%) 67 (1.3%) <.001 63 (13.9%) 36 (2.7%) <.001

HIV 44(4.6%) 99 (1.9%) <.001 7 (1.6%) 17 (1.3%) NS

Any STDsa 181 (19.0%) 436 (8.4%) <.001 72 (15.9%) 64 (4.8%) <.001

Past 30-day Opioid Use 115 (12.1%) 432 (8.3%) <.001 78 (17.2%) 166 (12.4%) .027

Past 30-day Cigarette Use 671 (70.6%) 2150 (41.4%) <.001 313 (69.1%) 510 (38.1%) <.001

Note.

a

= chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, syphilis

NS = non-significant