Table 3D.
Comparisons of Socio-demographic characteristics by 24-month follow up completion status.
| High need (n = 47 vs. n = 250) |
Moderate need (n = 34 vs. n = 166) |
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| 24-month visit-no n (%)/mean (sd) |
24-month visit-yes n (%)/mean (sd) |
P valuea | 24-month visit-no n (%)/mean (sd) |
24-month visit-yes n (%)/mean (sd) |
P value | ||
| Age (years) | Mean (sd) | 39.7 (14.5) | 39.7 (10.5) | 0.967 | 41.6 (12.2) | 42.8 (10.2) | 0.560 |
| Gender | Female | 10 (21) | 66 (27) | 0.435 | 7 (21) | 51 (31) | 0.228 |
| Male | 37 (79) | 181 (73) | 27 (79) | 114 (69) | |||
| Ethnicity | Aboriginals | 9 (19) | 35 (14) | 0.869 | 5 (15) | 28 (17) | 0.850 |
| Caucasian | 25 (53) | 145 (58) | 18 (53) | 92 (55) | |||
| Mixed/Other | 13 (28) | 70 (28) | 11 (32) | 46 (28) | |||
| Education | High School or Higher | 22 (47) | 93 (38) | 0.238 | 19 (56) | 80 (48) | 0.414 |
| Less than high school | 25 (53) | 154 (62) | 15 (44) | 86 (52) | |||
| Marital status | Single (never married) | 32 (70) | 182 (74) | 0.563 | 22 (65) | 107 (64) | 0.978 |
| Other | 14 (30) | 65 (26) | 12 (35) | 59 (36) | |||
| Have children (under18) | No | 36 (82) | 183 (75) | 0.329 | 23 (70) | 122 (74) | 0.615 |
| Yes | 8 (18) | 61 (25) | 10 (30) | 43 (26) | |||
| Employment | Unemployed/other | 46 (98) | 239 (96) | 1.00 | 32 (94) | 160 (96) | 0.626 |
| Employed | 1 (2) | 9 (4) | 2 (6) | 6 (4) | |||
| Housing status | Absolutely homeless | 37 (79) | 195 (78) | 0.912 | 23 (68) | 133 (80) | 0.110 |
| Precariously housed | 10 (21) | 55 (22) | 11 (32) | 33 (20) | |||
| Lifetime homelessness (months) | Mean (sd) | 46.2 (41.9) | 65.0 (70.4) | 0.016 | 61.3 (127.1) | 56.6 (59.5) | 0.740 |
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.