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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2015 Oct;17(5):1487–1495. doi: 10.1007/s10903-014-0105-9

Table 1.

Demographics of all study participants

Total study population (N = 477)
X (SD)
Black participants (N = 368)
X (SD)
White participants (N = 109)
X (SD)
P *
Age (range 15–96 years) 49.9 (17.2) 47.9 (16.8) 56.7 (16.8) <0.0001

N (%) N (%) N (%)

Male 324 (67.9) 244 (66.3) 80 (73.4) 0.164
Current homelessness 32 (6.7) 25 (6.8) 7 (6.4) 0.892
Completed high school 298 (62.5) 212 (57.6) 86 (78.9) <0.0001
Prior TB diagnosis 28 (5.9) 21 (5.7) 7 (6.4) 0.780
Excessive alcohol use 63 (13.2) 45 (12.2) 18 (16.5) 0.246
Drug use 62 (13.0) 47 (12.8) 15 (13.8) 0.787
Unemployed 366 (76.7) 295 (80.2) 71 (65.1) 0.001
Uninsured 223 (46.8) 178 (48.4) 45 (41.3) 0.193
Ever incarcerated 235 (49.3) 193 (52.4) 42 (38.5) 0.011
History of a chronic illness 304 (63.7) 227 (61.7) 77 (70.6) 0.088
History of HIV/AIDS 81 (17.0) 74 (20.1) 7 (6.4) 0.001

SD standard deviation

*

P value for the comparison of each variable by race