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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2016 Dec 21;123(8):1401–1408. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30489

Table 2.

Participant Demographic Characteristics.

Characteristic Intervention
(n = 59)
n (%)
Control
(n = 29)
n (%)
P-value
Age in years (mean, min-max, SD) 57.7 (49–73, 7.4) 57.4 (49–71, 5.9) 0.861
Gender 0.552
 Male 20 (34)   8 (28)
 Female 39 (66) 21 (72)
Highest level of education 0.962
 High school or less 18 (31)   9 (31)
 College or more 41 (69) 20 (69)
Marital status 0.322
 Married/long term relationship 31 (53) 12 (41)
 Single/divorced/widowed/other 28 (47) 17 (58)
Type of health insurance 0.902
 Private only 44 (75) 22 (76)
 Medicare/Medicare and/or other 15 (25)   7 (24)
Health literacy3 0.192
 High 48 (81) 20 (69)
 Low 11 (19)   9 (31)

Abbreviations: SD = Standard Deviation.

1

One-way ANOVA between-groups significance test.

2

Pearson’s chi-square significance test. Exact test p-values are reported if cell counts were <5.

3

Single Item Literacy Screening question.