Table 1.
Sample Description
| Demographic Variable |
Category | Control Group (n = 84) n (%) |
Dementia Group (n = 81) n (%) |
Total (N = 165) n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Female | 41 (48.8%) | 42 (51.9%) | 83 (50.3%) |
| Race | African American | 8 (9.5%) | 3 (3.7%) | 11 (6.7%) |
| Caucasian | 75 (89.3%) | 77 (95.1%) | 152 (92.1%) | |
| Other | 1 (1.2%) | 1 (1.2%) | 2 (1.2%) | |
| Marital statusa | Married | 48 (58.5%) | 46 (56.8%) | 94 (57.7%) |
| Widowed | 16 (19.0%) | 23 (28.4%) | 39 (23.6%) | |
| Divorced/separated | 13 (15.5%) | 12 (14.8%) | 25 (15.1%) | |
| Never married/other | 7 (8.4%) | 0 (0%) | 7 (4.2%) | |
| Religionb | Catholic | 44 (52.4%) | 40 (49.4%) | 84 (50.9%) |
| Protestant | 20 (23.8%) | 17 (21.0%) | 37 (22.4%) | |
| Jewish | 12 (14.3%) | 13 (16.0%) | 25 (15.2%) | |
| Other | 8 (9.5%) | 11 (13.6%) | 19 (11.6%) | |
| Age groupc | Age 75 or older | 29 (34.5%) | 51 (63.0%) | 80 (48.5%) |
| Years of school | Beyond high school (> 12) | 52 (61.9%) | 46 (58.2%) | 98 (60.1%) |
Note: There were no significant differences between the control and dementia groups on these demographic variables, with the exception of age.
a
These cells were collapsed into married versus unmarried to compute chi-square statistic.
b
These cells were collapsed into Catholic, Protestant, and Other to compute chi-square statistic.
c
Those in the dementia group are significantly more likely to be older than 75 years of age than those in the control group, χ2(1, n = 165) = 13.353, p < .0001.