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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2017 Sep 8;269:26–30. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.09.006

Table 1.

Demographic variables in skin picking disorder (SPD) subjects and control populations

SPD Subjects
(n=20)
Controls
(n=16)
Statistic p-value
Age (mean, SD) 29.50 (9.42) 34.00 (15.58) t=-1.02 0.32
Gender (n, %)
   Male
   Female

0 (0%)
20 (100%)

4 (25.0%)
12 (75.0%)
χ2=3.38 0.07^
Education (n, %)
   Some college or less
   College graduate or more

8 (44.44%) -
10 (55.56%) -

4 (25.0%)
12 (75.0%)
χ2=1.40 0.24
Race (n, %)
   Caucasian
   Latino/Hispanic
   Asian

19 (95.0%)
0 (0%)
1 (5.0%)

13 (81.3%)
2 (12.5%)
1 (6.3%)
χ2=2.71 0.26
^

p-value with Yates correction

-

Education data missing for 2 subjects in the SPD group