Table 2.
Characteristics of Moloka‘i Medicare Beneficiaries Randomized to the Experimental and Control Groups (N = 488)
| Characteristic | Experimental, n = 242 |
Control, n = 246 |
|---|---|---|
| Sex, n (%) | ||
| Male | 114 (47.1) | 114 (46.3) |
| Female | 128 (52.9) | 132 (53.7) |
| Age, mean | 68.4 | 66.7 |
| Age, n (%) | ||
| <65 | 72 (29.8) | 61 (24.8) |
| 65–75 | 116 (47.9) | 128 (52.0) |
| ≥75 | 54 (22.3) | 57 (23.2) |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | ||
| Chinese | 2 (0.8) | 2 (0.8) |
| Filipino | 90 (37.2) | 79 (32.1) |
| Hawaiian | 104 (43.0) | 116 (47.2) |
| Japanese | 30 (12.4) | 24 (9.8) |
| Other | 19 (7.9) | 21 (8.5) |
| Education, n (%) | ||
| <High school | 94 (38.8) | 86 (35.0) |
| High school graduate | 79 (32.6) | 70 (28.5) |
| >Post-high school training or college | 67 (27.7) | 88 (35.8) |
| Married, n (%) | 125 (51.7) | 129 (52.4) |
| Lived more than 10 years in United | 239 (98.8) | 237 (96.3) |
| States, n (%) | ||
| Primary language English, n (%) | 197 (81.4) | 204 (82.9) |
The groups did not differ statistically in these characteristics.