. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2017 May 24;100(10):1928–1933. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.05.029

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics (N=144)

	% (n)
Age (mean, SD)	56.5 (7.5)
Age >50 years	82.6 (119)
Educational Attainment
Less than high school	1.4 (2)
High school degree	10.4 (15)
Vocational/technical school	2.1 (3)
Some college, no degree	21.5 (31)
Associate degree	11.1 (16)
Bachelor’s degree	26.4 (38)
Graduate degree	27.1 (39)
Race/Ethnicity
Hispanic	2.1 (3)
Black/African American	21.5 (31)
White/Caucasian	77.1 (111)
Personal History of Side Effects^*	81.3 (117)
Side effect severity^† (mean, SD)	2.0 (1.0)

Do you think you’ve ever had a side effect from taking a prescription drug?

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Side effect severity: (1) Not at all serious (2) A little bit serious (3) Somewhat serious (4) Very serious