. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017 Jan 5;5(4):1032–1039.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2016.11.018

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

	All Participants (n=90)	Asthma (n=61)	COPD ^* (n=29)	p-value
Age (Average [SD^†])	47.9 [14.1]	42.5 [13.1]	59.2 [8.5]	<0.001
Female (n, %)	56 (62.2%)	39 (63.9%)	17 (58.6%)	0.6
African American (n, %)	85 (94.4%)	57 (93.4%)	28 (96.6%)	>0.999
High School: some or graduate (n, %)	42 (51.2%)	28 (48.3%)	14 (58.3%)	0.4
Sufficient Vision (n, %)	79 (88.8%)	55 (91.7%)	24 (82.8%)	0.2
Less than Adequate Health Literacy (n, %)	6 (16.7%)	4 (16.0%)	2 (18.2%)	>0.999
Sees Healthcare Provider (n, %)	49 (59.0)	31 (54.4)	18 (69.2)	0.2
Hospitalized in the last 12 months (n, %)	59 (65.6)	36 (59.0)	23 (79.3)	0.06
Near fatal (ICU^‡ stay and/or intubation in lifetime) (n, %)	48 (53.3)	33 (54.1)	15 (51.7)	0.8

Note: Eight participants did not provide education data; only 36 participants completed the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), asthma (n=25), COPD (n=11) either due to insufficient vision or declining to complete the tool; 7 participants did not provide information about seeing a healthcare provider.

COPD, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

^†

SD, Standard Deviation

^‡

ICU, Intensive Care Unit