. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Res Aging. 2015 Aug 4;38(6):619–642. doi: 10.1177/0164027515595442

Table 2.

Baseline Sample Characteristics.

	Mean	SD
CES-D (0–22)	4.12	2.44
Age	73.42	5.54
Female	0.57	0.50
Comorbidity (0–15)	1.56	1.36
ADLs (dichotomous)	0.07	0.25
Self-reported health^a	3.26	1.05
Widowed^b (dichotomous)	0.32	0.47
Coreside with son (dichotomous)	0.38	0.49
Coreside with daughter (dichotomous)	0.12	0.32
Community contact (0–11)^c	1.31	1.34
Instrum support from son (0–70)	0.48	1.10
Companionship from son (0–10)	0.16	0.45
Instrum support from daughter-in-law (0–70)	0.38	0.97
Companionship from daughter-in-law (0–10)	0.13	0.39
Instrum support from daughter (0–70)	0.36	1.22
Companionship from daughter (0–10)	0.14	0.47
Attrition (dichotomous)	0.38	0.49

Note. N = 2,636. CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; ADL = activities of daily living.

Self-reported health (1 = very unhealthy and 5 = healthy).

Widowed (0 = married/divorced/separated/never married and 1 = widowed).

Community contact (0–11 group memberships).