Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics of the sample, both pooled and by gender.
| All n = 740 |
African American Men n = 262 |
African American Women n = 474 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Age * | 71.73 | 8.37 | 70.79 | 8.32 | 72.26 | 8.36 |
| Educational Attainment * | 12.74 | 2.24 | 12.42 | 2.51 | 12.93 | 2.06 |
| Number of CMCs (Multimorbidity) * | 3.86 | 1.86 | 3.58 | 1.88 | 4.03 | 1.83 |
| Depression | 2.47 | 2.77 | 2.53 | 2.76 | 2.43 | 2.79 |
| Self-Rated Health (SRH) | 3.13 | 1.02 | 3.12 | 1.09 | 3.14 | 0.97 |
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Married * | ||||||
| No | 640 | 86.5 | 215 | 80.8 | 425 | 89.7 |
| Yes | 100 | 13.5 | 51 | 19.2 | 49 | 10.3 |
| Living Alone * | ||||||
| No | 294 | 39.7 | 121 | 45.5 | 173 | 36.5 |
| Yes | 446 | 60.3 | 145 | 54.5 | 301 | 63.5 |
CMC: chronic medical condition; SD: Standard Deviation; * p < 0.05 (independent sample t-test).