Table 1.
Characteristics of survey respondents
| Overall (N = 2,130) | Drug RCT | Dose Timing RCT | ||||
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| General Notification (N = 503) | Verbal Consent (N = 558) | General Notification (N = 546) | Verbal Consent (N = 523) | |||
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| Count | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Age, y (N = 2130) | ||||||
| 18–24 | 204 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 13.7 | 11.8 | 12.5 |
| 25–34 | 298 | 16.6 | 16.4 | 17.2 | 16.4 | 16.5 |
| 35–44 | 319 | 17.6 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 19.6 | 18.6 |
| 45–54 | 368 | 16.2 | 17.9 | 18.8 | 14.4 | 13.7 |
| 55–64 | 461 | 18.5 | 18.9 | 15.8 | 18.5 | 21.1 |
| 65–74 | 349 | 13.6 | 13.3 | 13.3 | 14.3 | 13.5 |
| 75 and over | 131 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 4.1 |
| Sex (N = 2130) | ||||||
| Male | 1,061 | 48.2 | 46.3 | 49.3 | 47.4 | 49.7 |
| Female | 1,069 | 51.8 | 53.7 | 50.7 | 52.6 | 50.3 |
| Region (N = 2130) | ||||||
| Northeast | 397 | 18.2 | 20.3 | 17.9 | 17.4 | 17.5 |
| Midwest | 502 | 21.4 | 20.8 | 22.5 | 21.1 | 20.8 |
| South | 770 | 37.1 | 38.9 | 35.5 | 35.1 | 39.1 |
| West | 461 | 23.4 | 20.0 | 24.1 | 26.4 | 22.5 |
| Race (N = 2130) | ||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 1,587 | 65.5 | 72.4 | 61.6 | 65.1 | 63.8 |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 185 | 11.6 | 8.6 | 13.1 | 11.4 | 12.7 |
| Other, non-Hispanic | 91 | 6.5 | 5.1 | 7.9 | 7.0 | 5.6 |
| Hispanic | 203 | 15.2 | 12.5 | 16.4 | 15.4 | 16.2 |
| 2+ races, non-Hispanic | 64 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.7 |
| Marital Status (N = 2130) | ||||||
| Married | 1,252 | 54.1 | 56.5 | 50.4 | 55.2 | 55.0 |
| Widowed | 85 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.3 |
| Divorced | 192 | 8.7 | 7.2 | 8.5 | 9.4 | 9.8 |
| Separated | 27 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 2.3 |
| Never Married | 422 | 24.0 | 21.4 | 27.8 | 24.1 | 22.1 |
| Living with partner | 152 | 7.8 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 6.8 | 6.6 |
| Annual Household Income (N = 2130) | ||||||
| <$25,000 | 329 | 17.9 | 16.0 | 21.5 | 17.7 | 15.9 |
| $25,000–$50,000 | 489 | 22.5 | 21.5 | 23.2 | 22.2 | 22.8 |
| $50,000–$75,000 | 391 | 18.4 | 19.5 | 18.2 | 17.8 | 18.4 |
| $75,000+ | 921 | 41.2 | 43.0 | 37.1 | 42.4 | 43.0 |
| Employment Status (N = 2130) | ||||||
| Employed | 1203 | 56.7 | 56.3 | 55.5 | 60.4 | 54.6 |
| Retired | 480 | 18.6 | 19.0 | 16.9 | 18.8 | 19.7 |
| Disabled | 146 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 6.9 | 6.4 |
| Unemployed or other | 301 | 17.2 | 15.9 | 19.5 | 14.0 | 19.3 |
| Education (N = 2130) | ||||||
| <High School | 193 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 15.9 | 11.8 | 10.9 |
| Completed HS | 643 | 29.7 | 31.2 | 27.8 | 29.9 | 29.9 |
| Some College | 610 | 28.7 | 30.5 | 27.7 | 28.5 | 28.6 |
| Bachelors | 398 | 16.8 | 14.5 | 16.6 | 16.9 | 19.2 |
| Post-graduate | 286 | 12.4 | 13.3 | 12.0 | 12.9 | 11.5 |
| Religious Attendance (N = 2127) *, † | ||||||
| Regularly | 860 | 39.7 | 39.1 | 38.6 | 38.8 | 42.3 |
| Rarely | 717 | 33.9 | 32.3 | 34.0 | 37.2 | 32.0 |
| Never | 550 | 26.4 | 28.6 | 27.4 | 24.0 | 25.8 |
| Ideology (N = 2122) *, ‡ | ||||||
| Liberal | 572 | 27.8 | 25.7 | 28.0 | 26.3 | 31.1 |
| Moderate | 786 | 38.6 | 43.6 | 37.1 | 37.7 | 36.5 |
| Conservative | 764 | 33.6 | 30.7 | 34.9 | 36.0 | 32.4 |
| Diagnosed with hypertension (N = 2054) * | ||||||
| No | 1,469 | 74.6 | 74.9 | 73.6 | 72.7 | 77.7 |
| Yes | 585 | 25.3 | 25.1 | 26.4 | 27.3 | 22.3 |
| Prescription treatment for hypertension (N = 2054) * | ||||||
| No | 1553 | 78.7 | 78.4 | 77.5 | 76.8 | 82.2 |
| Yes | 501 | 21.3 | 21.6 | 22.5 | 23.3 | 17.8 |
*
Excludes respondents who did not answer the item.
†
Religious attendance was recategorized as the following: regularly = “more than once a week,” “once a week,” and “once or twice a month;” rarely = “a few times a year” and “once a year or less;” never = “never.”
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Political ideology was recategorized from a seven-point scale (“extremely liberal” to “extremely conservative”).