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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2019 May;38(5):435–444. doi: 10.1037/hea0000685

Table 2.

Demographic Characteristics of the SCI and TBI Samples by Mode of Administration

SCI subsample TBI subsample

Self-report Interview Self-report Interview

N 67 81 58 71
Age(Years)
M (SD) 39.2 (14.7) 40.7 (15.0) 36.7 (14.6) 38.3 (14.9)
Years Injured
M (SD) 8.7 (7.7) 10.0 (8.6) 7.4 (6.2) 8.2 (6.5)
Gender(%)
 Male 67.2 69.1 62.1 74.6
 Female 32.8 30.9 36.2 25.4
 Not reported 0.0 0.0 1.7 0.0
Race (%)
 Caucasian 68.7 74.1 55.2 53.5
 African American 23.9 21.0 39.7 32.4
 Other 4.5 4.9 5.2 14.1
 Unknown 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Ethnicity (%)
 Not Hispanic or Latino 81.5 85.9 93.4 93.0
 Hispanic or Latino 6.2 8.1 1.7 4.2
 Not Provided 12.3 6.1 4.9 2.8
Education (%)
 8th Grade or Less 3.0 2.5 0.0 0.0
 Some High School 4.5 12.3 15.5 8.5
 High School Diploma 29.9 24.7 20.7 26.8
 Some College 38.8 37.0 43.1 42.3
 College Degree 9.0 16.0 15.5 14.1
 Some Grad School 9.0 2.5 0.0 1.4
 Graduate Degree 6.0 4.9 3.4 7.0
 Not Provided 0.0 0.0 1.7 0.0
Work Status (%)
 Working 23.9 13.6 25.9 33.8
 Out of work < 1 year 4.5 2.5 6.9 2.8
 Out of work > 1 year 19.4 17.3 8.6 1.4
 Homemaker 3.0 0.0 0.0 1.4
 Student 14.9 19.8 24.1 15.5
 Retired 7.5 3.7 10.3 4.2
 Unable to Work 26.9 43.2 22.4 40.8
 Not Provided 0.0 0.0 1.7 0.0
SCI Diagnosis (%)
 Paraplegia 40.3 39.5 n/a n/a
 Tetraplegia 52.2 50.6 n/a n/a
 Missing/Unknown 7.5 9.9 n/a n/a
Completeness (%)
 Complete 47.8 48.1 n/a n/a
 Incomplete 41.8 40.7 n/a n/a
 Not Known 10.4 11.1 n/a n/a
TBI Severity (%)
 Mild n/a n/a 24.1 22.5
 Moderate n/a n/a 15.5 21.1
 Severe n/a n/a 46.6 38.0
 Unknown/Missing n/a n/a 13.8 18.3