Table 2. Relationship between different demographic and clinical characteristics and level of preparedness.
| Preparedness categories | χ2/ Fisher |
p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor (n = 59) | Moderate (n = 81) | High (n = 60) | ||||
| Characteristic | Number of participants (%) | |||||
| Age | 19 – 60 | 44 (34.65) | 47 (37.01) | 36 (28.35) | 4.49 | 0.11 |
| > 60 | 15 (20.55) | 34 (46.58) | 24 (32.88) | |||
| Race | White | 32 (32.99) | 38 (39.18) | 27 (27.84) | 2.94 | 0.57 |
| Black | 8 (25) | 11 (34.38) | 13 (40.63) | |||
| Other | 19 (26.76) | 32 (45.07) | 20 (28.17) | |||
| Gender | Male | 32 (32) | 44 (44) | 24 (24) | 3.43 | 0.18 |
| Female | 27 (27) | 37 (37) | 36 (36) | |||
| Primary insurance | Medicaid | 3 (18.75) | 8 (50) | 5 (31.25) | Fisher | 0.91 |
| Medicare | 25 (30.49) | 33 (40.24) | 24 (29.27) | |||
| Private insurance | 31 (30.39) | 40 (39.22) | 31 (30.39) | |||
| Education | Less than college | 26 (28.89) | 38 (42.22) | 26 (28.89) | 1.65 | 0.80 |
| College degree | 22 (34.38) | 23 (35.94) | 19 (29.69) | |||
| Graduate/professional | 11 (23.91) | 20 (43.48) | 15 (32.61) | |||
| Time since transplant | Less than 1 year | 23 (31.51) | 25 (34.25) | 25 (34.25) | 2.10 | 0.72 |
| Between 1 and 5 years | 21 (27.27) | 34 (44.16) | 22 (28.57) | |||
| Greater than 5 years | 15 (30) | 81 (40.5) | 60 (30) | |||
| Diabetes | Diabetic | 15 (23.44) | 26 (40.63) | 23 (35.94) | 2.28 | 0.32 |
| Nondiabetic | 44 (32.35) | 55 (40.63) | 37 (27.21) | |||
| Insulin preparation | Have insulin for 2 weeks | 8 (18.18) | 19 (43.18) | 17 (38.64) | 3.56 | 0.17 |
| Do not have for 2 weeks | 2 (33.33) | 4 (66.67) | 0 (0.00) | |||
| Marital status | Married | 31 (26.27) | 48 (40.68) | 39 (33.05) | 1.91 | 0.38 |
| Not married | 28 (34.15) | 33 (40.24) | 21 (25.61) | |||
| Work status | Working | 22 (28.95) | 31 (40.79) | 23 (30.26) | Fisher | 0.89 |
| Not working | 37 (30.08) | 50 (40.65) | 36 (29.27) | |||
| Unknown | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | |||
| Children | Have children | 30 (27.52) | 43 (39.45) | 36 (33.03) | 1.75 | 0.78 |
| No children | 23 (32.86) | 30 (42.86) | 17 (24.29) | |||
| Unknown | 6 (28.57) | 8 (38.10) | 7 (33.33) | |||
| Living situation | Lives alone | 9 (47.37) | 4 (21.05) | 6 (31.58) | 4.53 | 0.34 |
| Lives with others | 45 (28.13) | 67 (41.88) | 48 (30) | |||
| Unknown | 5 (23.81) | 10 (47.62) | 6 (28.57) | |||