Table 3B.
Comparisons of Socio-demographic characteristics by 12-month follow up completion status.
| High need (n = 23 vs. n = 274) |
Moderate need (n = 23 vs. n = 177) |
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| 12-month visit-no n (%)/mean (sd) |
12-month visit-yes n (%)/mean (sd) |
P valuea | 12-month visit-no n (%)/mean (sd) |
12-month visit-yes n (%)/mean (sd) |
P value | ||
| Age (years) | mean (sd) | 38.3 (13.8) | 39.8 (10.9) | 0.614 | 43.5 (10.8) | 42.5 (10.5) | 0.649 |
| Gender | Female | 3 (13) | 73 (27) | 0.144 | 6 (26) | 52 (30) | 0.731 |
| Male | 20 (87) | 198 (73) | 17 (74) | 124 (70) | |||
| Ethnicity | Aboriginals | 2 (9) | 42 (15) | 0.649 | 5 (22) | 28 (16) | 0.753 |
| Caucasian | 13 (57) | 157 (57) | 12 (52) | 98 (55) | |||
| Mixed/Other | 8 (35) | 75 (27) | 6 (26) | 51 (29) | |||
| Education | High School or Higher | 9 (39) | 106 (39) | 1.000 | 13 (57) | 86 (49) | 0.474 |
| Less than high school | 14 (61) | 165 (61) | 10 (43) | 91 (51) | |||
| Marital status | Single (never married) | 19 (86) | 195 (72) | 0.143 | 13 (57) | 116 (66) | 0.395 |
| Other | 3 (14) | 76 (28) | 10 (43) | 61 (34) | |||
| Have children (under18) | No | 21 (95) | 198 (74) | 0.026 | 14 (64) | 131 (74) | 0.281 |
| Yes | 1 (5) | 68 (26) | 8 (36) | 45 (26) | |||
| Employment | Unemployed/other | 23 (100) | 262 (96) | 1.000 | 22 (96) | 170 (96) | 1.000 |
| Employed | 0 (0) | 10 (4) | 1 (4) | 7 (4) | |||
| Housing status | Absolutely homeless | 19 (83) | 213 (78) | 0.587 | 16 (70) | 140 (79) | 0.299 |
| Precariously housed | 4 (17) | 61 (22) | 7 (30) | 37 (21) | |||
| Lifetime homelessness (months) | mean (sd) | 75.9 (90.7) | 60.8 (64.6) | 0.442 | 38.5 (57.5) | 59.9 (76.7) | 0.198 |
Bold value signifies p < 0.05.
a
p values (for both high and moderate need comparisons) were based on independent sample t-test with equal or unequal variance (for continuous variables) and Pearson chi-square test or Fisher's exact test (for categorical variables) as appropriate.