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. 2016 Apr 10;40(5):560–566. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2017.1308109

Table 1.

Demographic and Injury Characteristics for Good and Poor Sleepers

TOTAL Good Sleeper Poor Sleep
Characteristic N=177 n=88 n=92
M(SD) or n (%)
Age (Range 19–51) 34.2 (7.3) 33.2 (7.2) 35.2 (7.2) F(1,178)=3.48, P=0.064
Age Injury (Range 0–18) 13.5 (4.6) 13.1 (4.7) 13.8 (4.4) F(1,178)=1.02, P=0.314
Injury duration (Range 1–45) 20.2 (8.4) 19.6 (8.1) 20.9 (8.6) F(1,178)=1.09, P=0.298
Sex χ2(1)=.292, P=0.589
 Male 112 (62.2%) 53 (47.3%) 59 (52.7%)
 Female 68 (37.8%) 35 (51.5%) 33 (48.5%)
Race χ2(1)=.111, P=0.739
 Caucasian 151 (83.9%) 73 (48.3%) 78 (51.7%)
 Other 29 (16.1%) 15 (51.7%) 14 (48.3%)
Employment Status
 not employed 76 (42.2%) 29 (38.2%) 47 (61.8%) χ2(2)=6.17, P=0.046
 employed 87 (48.3%) 50 (57.5%) 37 (42.5%)
 student 17 (9.4%) 9 (52.9%) 8 (47.1%)
Married (Y/N)
 No 94 (52.2%) 58 (46.0%) 68 (54.0%) χ2(1)=1.37, P=0.241
 Yes 86 (47.8%) 30 (55.6%) 24 (44.4%)
Etiology (5 groups)a χ2(4)=3.28, P=0.511
 Vehicular/pedestrian 89 (49.4%) 44 (49.4%) 45 (50.6%)
 Violence 12 (6.7%) 5 (41.7%) 7 (58.3%)
 Fall/flying object 14 (7.8%) 5 (35.7%) 9 (64.3%)
 Sports 43 (23.9%) 21 (48.8%) 22 (51.2%)
 Medical/surgical 20 (11.1%) 13 (65.0%) 7 (35.0%)
Tetraplegia/Paraplegia χ2(1)=6.33, P=0.012
 Para 79 (43.9%) 47 (59.5%) 32 (40.5%)
 Tetra 101 (56.1%) 41 (40.6%) 60 (59.4%)
Complete/ incomplete injuryb
 Complete 129 (74.1%) 64 (49.6%) 65 (50.4%) χ2(1)=.357, P=0.550
 Incomplete 45 (25.9%) 20 (44.4%) 25 (55.6%)

aEtiology unknown/other for 2 participants; bInjury severity missing for 6 participants