Table 3C.
Comparisons of Socio-demographic characteristics by 18-month follow up completion status.
| High need (n = 40 vs. n = 257) |
Moderate need (n = 27 vs. n = 173) |
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| 18-month visit-no n (%)/mean (sd) |
18-month visit-yes n (%)/mean (sd) |
P valuea | 18-month visit-no n (%)/mean (sd) |
18-month visit-yes n (%)/mean (sd) |
P value | ||
| Age (years) | mean (sd) | 40.9 (14.6) | 39.5 (10.6) | 0.557 | 42.2 (11.8) | 42.6 (10.3) | 0.851 |
| Gender | Female | 6 (15) | 70 (28) | 0.092 | 5 (19) | 53 (31) | 0.191 |
| Male | 34 (85) | 184 (72) | 22 (81) | 119 (69) | |||
| Ethnicity | Aboriginals | 6 (15) | 38 (15) | 0.946 | 4 (15) | 29 (17) | 1.000 |
| Caucasian | 22 (55) | 148 (58) | 15 (56) | 95 (55) | |||
| Mixed/Other | 12 (30) | 71 (28) | 8 (30) | 49 (28) | |||
| Education | High School or Higher | 16 (40) | 99 (39) | 0.902 | 17 (63) | 82 (47) | 0.132 |
| Less than high school | 24 (60) | 155 (61) | 10 (37) | 91 (53) | |||
| Marital status | Single (never married) | 28 (72) | 186 (73) | 0.851 | 17 (63) | 112 (65) | 0.858 |
| Other | 11 (28) | 68 (27) | 10 (37) | 61 (35) | |||
| Have children (under18) | No | 32 (86) | 187 (75) | 0.111 | 19 (73) | 126 (73) | 0.985 |
| Yes | 5 (14) | 64 (25) | 7 (27) | 46 (27) | |||
| Employment | Unemployed/other | 39 (98) | 246 (96) | 1.000 | 26 (96) | 166 (96) | 1.000 |
| Employed | 1 (3) | 9 (4) | 1 (4) | 7 (4) | |||
| Housing status | Absolutely homeless | 33 (83) | 199 (77) | 0.471 | 17 (63) | 139 (80) | 0.043 |
| Precariously housed | 7 (18) | 58 (23) | 10 (37) | 34 (20) | |||
| Lifetime homelessness (months) | mean (sd) | 60.0 (78.1) | 62.3 (65.2) | 0.845 | 59.4 (141.4) | 57.1 (58.9) | 0.884 |
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.