Table 1.
Sample demographic characteristics
| Variable | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Sex | |
| Female | 1129 (63) |
| Male | 665 (37) |
| Age | |
| 18–30 | 216 (12) |
| 31–40 | 301 (17) |
| 41–50 | 373 (21) |
| 51–60 | 475 (26) |
| 61–70 | 256 (14) |
| 71–80+ | 173 (10) |
| Marital Status* (19% of patients not included) | |
| Separated/divorced | 225 (16) |
| Cohabitating | 104 (7) |
| Widowed | 49 (3) |
| Married | 794 (54) |
| Never married | 288 (20) |
| Education* (19% of patients not included) | |
| No high school diploma | 111 (8) |
| High school diploma or GED | 143 (10) |
| Some university/Associate’s degree | 534 (37) |
| Bachelor’s degree | 343 (24) |
| Graduate degree | 322 (22) |
| Unknown | 4 (≪1) |
| Race*§ (5% of patients not included) | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 7 (≪1) |
| Asian | 117 (7) |
| Black or African American | 51 (3) |
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 16 (1) |
| White | 1144 (67) |
| Other | 311 (18) |
| Patient declined to answer | 34 (2) |
| Unknown | 31 (2) |
*
Not all patients included due to incomplete surveys.
§
Due to limitations of the electronic medical records used, ethnicity data were unreliable and not reported. Hispanic is subsumed either in “White” or “Other”.