Table 1. Focus Group Participant Characteristics.
| In-Center Hemodialysis (N = 35) | Peritoneal Dialysis (N = 12) | p-Value | Total (N = 47) | |
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| Age, years (SD), (N = 43) | 54.6 (12.9) | 49.3 (16.3) | 0.3 | 53.1 (13.9) |
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| Sex (%), (N = 46) | 0.5 | |||
| Male | 10 (29.4) | 5 (41.7) | 15 (32.6) | |
| Female | 24 (70.6) | 7 (58.3) | 31 (67.4) | |
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| Race (%) | 0.2 | |||
| White | 6 (17.1) | 5 (41.7) | 11 (23.4) | |
| African american | 28 (80.0) | 7 (58.3) | 35 (74.5) | |
| Hispanic | 1 (2.9) | 0 | 1 (2.1) | |
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| Education (%), (N = 46) | 0.8 | |||
| Did not graduate high school | 9 (26.5) | 2 (16.7) | 11 (23.9) | |
| High school graduate | 10 (29.4) | 5 (41.7) | 15 (32.6) | |
| > High school education* | 15 (44.1) | 5 (41.7) | 20 (43.5) | |
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| Years on dialysis, median (IQR) †, (N = 46) | 4 (2, 7) | 1 (1, 3) | 0.005 | 3 (1,6) |
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| Insurance status (%), (N = 46) | 0.1 | |||
| Medicare | 10 (29.4) | 2 (16.7) | 12 (26.1) | |
| Medicare/Medicaid | 13 (38.2) | 2 (16.7) | 15 (32.6) | |
| Medicare/Private ins. | 8 (23.5) | 6 (50.0) | 14 (30.4) | |
| Medicare/State plan | 2 (5.9) | 0 | 2 (4.4) | |
| Other | 1 (2.9) | 2 (16.7) | 3 (6.5) | |
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| On transplant wait list (%) | 18 (51.4) | 8 (66.7) | 0.8 | 26 (55.3) |
| Don't know | 3 (8.6) | 1 (8.3) | 4 (8.5) | |
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| Previously on other modality (%) | 10 (28.6) | 10 (83.3) | 0.002 | 20 (42.6) |
*
Includes those who attended vocational/technical schools, college (whether or not completed) and those with graduate/professional degrees.
†
Median and inter-quartile range are reported as data were not normally distributed. Kruskal-Wallis test results reported.
Results with a p-value < 0.05 are considered to be statistically significant. Casewise deletion was used to account for missing data in tabulating proportions and comparisons.
Total N provided separately for instances of missing data.