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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2019 Jun 1;58(3):454–459. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.05.011

Table 2.

Point Prevalence of Financial Strain within Demographic and Health Subgroups

Financial Strain
Absent (N=193)		 Financial Strain
Present (N=116)
Characteristic n (%) n (%) p
Age
  <65 127 (58.0%) 92 (42.0%) .011
  ≥65 66 (73.3%) 24 (26.7%)
Marital Status
  Unmarried 61 (48.4%) 65 (51.6%) <.001
  Married 132 (72.2%) 51 (27.8%)
Education
  Bachelor’s absent 41 (48.2%) 44 (51.8%) .001
  Bachelor’s present 152 (67.9%) 72 (32.1%)
Time since diagnosis
  ≤ 1 year 28 (52.8%) 27 (47.2%) .112
  > 1 year 165 (64.5%) 91 (35.5%)
Metastases
  Absent 155 (61.8%) 96 (38.2%) .594
  Present 38 (65.5%) 20 (34.5%)

Note. N=309 across three samples. P-values were obtained from Chi-Square tests of independence to examine the zero-order association between each participant characteristic (dichotomous variable) and presence of financial strain (dichotomous variable).