Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for sociodemographic and medical characteristics of study participants (n = 320).
| All (n=320) | African (n=88) | Hispanic (n=232) |
χ2 or t | |
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| Mean±SD or N (%) | ||||
| Age | 54.49±11.49 | 57.98±13.16 | 53.19±10.53 | 3.04** |
| Place of birth | ||||
| US | 146 (46.06%) | 85 (97.7%) | 61 (26.4%) | 128.73*** |
| Not in US | 171 (53.94%) | 2 (2.3%) | 169 (73.6%) | |
| Years residing in U.S. | 56.21±31.31 | 86.33±11.02 | 44.42±28.67 | 18.68*** |
| Marital Status | ||||
| Married/committed relationship | 177 (57.8%) | 37 (42.0%) | 140 (60.6%) | 12.64*** |
| Not married | 129 (42.2%) | 51 (58%) | 78 (39.2%) | |
| Education | ||||
| < High school | 113 (36.7%) | 4 (4.6%) | 109 (49.5%) | 65.16*** |
| High school graduate | 45 (14.61%) | 12 (13.6%) | 33 (15%) | |
| > High school | 150 (48.7%) | 72 (81.8%) | 78 (35.5%) | |
| Annual Household Income | ||||
| <$15,000 | 94 (29.6%) | 17 (19.5%) | 77 (33.3%) | 19.26** |
| $15,000 – $24,999 | 58 (18.2%) | 10 (11.5%) | 48 (20.8%) | |
| $25,000 – $34,999 | 37 (11.6%) | 9 (10.3%) | 28 (12.1%) | |
| $35,000 – $44,999 | 36 (11.3%) | 17 (19.5%) | 19 (8.2%) | |
| $45,000 – $59,999 | 20 (6.3%) | 9 (10.3%) | 11 (4.8%) | |
| $60,000 – $74,999 | 21 (6.6%) | 7 (8.0%) | 14 (6.1%) | |
| >$75,000 | 52 (16.4%) | 18 (20.7%) | 34 (14.7%) | |
| Occupation | ||||
| Homemaker/housewife | 115 (35.9%) | 16 (18.2%) | 99 (42.7%) | 27.67*** |
| Managerial, profession specialty | 73 (22.8%) | 31 (35.2%) | 42 (18.1%) | |
| Technical workers | 54 (16.9%) | 17 (19.3%) | 37 (15.9%) | |
| Service | 46 (14.4%) | 10 (11.4%) | 36 (15.5%) | |
| Operator, laborer, fabricator | 12 (3.8%) | 3 (3.4%) | 9 (3.9%) | |
| Other | 20 (6.3%) | 11 (12.5%) | 9 (3.9%) | |
| Working status | ||||
| Currently working | 123 (38.6%) | 32 (36.4%) | 91 (39.4%) | .25 |
| Breast cancer stage | ||||
| 0 | 17 (5.4%) | 6 (7.0%) | 11 (4.8%) | .93 |
| I | 119 (37.8%) | 34 (39.5%) | 85 (37.1%) | |
| II | 127 (40.3%) | 32 (37.2%) | 95 (41.5%) | |
| III | 52 (16.5%) | 14 (16.3%) | 38 (16.6%) | |
| Lumpectomy | 124 (38.9%) | 29 (33.0%) | 95 (41.0%) | 1.72 |
| Mastectomy | 188 (58.8%) | 63 (71.6%) | 125 (53.9%) | 8.25** |
| Chemotherapy | 4.58* | |||
| Yes | 234 (73.4%) | 57 (64.8%) | 177 (76.6%) | |
| Radiation | .09 | |||
| Yes | 135 (61.9%) | 64 (72.7%) | 171 (74.3%) | |
| Perceived neighborhood stress | 1.63±0.69 | 1.57±0.70 | 1.65±0.68 | .91 |
Abbreviations. SD, standard deviation.
Note.
*
p<.05,
**
p<.01,
***
p<.001