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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2018 Jul;56(7):551–556. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000927

TABLE 3.

Descriptive Statistics for Key Study Variables

Patient measures (median) (IQR, SD)
 Emotional functioning (N = 602) 3.25 (1.5–0.88)
 Physical functioning (N = 606) 3.8 (1.4–0.94)
 Social functioning (N = 602) 3.17 (1.5–1.04)
 Total count of comorbidities (disease burden) (N=606) 6 (3–2.55)
 PAM (N = 602) 3.15 (0.69–0.46)
 Age (N = 606) [n (%)]
  18–44 48 (7.92)
  45–64 219 (36.14)
  65+ 339 (55.94)
 Sex (N=606) [n (%)]
  Male 209 (34.49)
  Female 397 (65.51)
 Education (N = 592) [n (%)]
  8th grade or less 84 (14.19)
  GED or some high school 172 (29.05)
  Four-year college degree or some college 273 (46.11)
  > 4y college degree 63 (10.64)
 English proficiency (N = 596) [n (%)]
  Good (well/very well) 470 (78.86)
  Poor (not well/not at all) 126 (21.14)
 Race/ethnicity (N = 599) [n (%)]
  White 259 (43.24)
  Hispanic/Latino 245 (40.90)
  African American 43 (7.18)
  Other 52 (8.68)
 Marital status (N=599) [n (%)]
  Married 302 (50.42)
  Unmarried 297 (49.58)
 Employment (N = 576) [n (%)]
  Unable to work 96 (16.67)
  Unemployed: able to work 51 (8.85)
  Employed 160 (27.78)
  Retired 269 (46.70)
 Practice variables (N = 606) (median) (IQR, SD)
  Relational coordination 4.1 (0.18–0.22)
  Patient-centeredness 4.23 (0.41–0.28)
  Practice-reported shared decision-making 3 (5–2.58)

GED indicates graduate equivalency degree; IQR, interquartile range; PAM, patient activation measure