Table 1.
Characteristics of the subjects.
| Baseline (n, %) N = 120 |
1 month (n, %) N = 108 |
p-valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (mean, sd) | 63.5 (5.9) | 63.59 (6.0) | 0.94 |
| Gender | 0.28 | ||
| Male | 57 (47.5) | 50 (46.3) | |
| Female | 63 (52.5) | 58 (53.7) | |
| Race | 0.91 | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 3 (2.5) | 3 (2.8) | |
| Black or African-American | 29 (24.2) | 26 (24.1) | |
| White | 85 (70.8) | 76 (70.4) | |
| Not specified | 2 (1.7) | 2 (1.9) | |
| Refused to answer | 1 (0.8) | 1 (0.9) | |
| Ethnicity | 0.64 | ||
| Hispanic | 6 (5.0) | 5 (4.6) | |
| Not Hispanic | 113 (94.2) | 102 (94.4) | |
| Education | 0.22 | ||
| Less than high school | 3 (2.5) | 3 (2.8) | |
| Graduated high school/GED | 17 (16.7) | 17 (15.7) | |
| Some college/trade school | 41 (40.8) | 42 (38.9) | |
| Graduated college or more | 46 (40.0) | 46 (42.6) | |
| Current smoker | 61 (50.8) | 53 (49.1) | 0.38 |
| Years smoked cigarettes (mean, sd) | 40.3 (16.8) | 37.2 (12.0) | 0.08 |
| Avg. cigarettes smoked per day (mean, sd) | 18.09 (9.3) | 18.37 (9.4) | 0.62 |
| Pack-year history (mean, sd) | 36.5 (23.3) | 36.8 (23.8) | 0.57 |
Abbreviations: sd = standard deviation, GED = general educational development, Avg. = average
All data were collected from 12/2014 to 09/2015 in Houston, TX.
a
The p-values are based upon one-way ANOVA for continuous variables and chi-square tests comparing those who completed baseline and follow-up and those who did not.