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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2019 May 2;24(6):585–591. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2019.1607955

Table 1.

Sample characteristics (N = 560)

Characteristics n (%)  Mean±SD
Age (range = 21–65), years
 <40
 40–49
 50–59
 60+

137 (24.5)
205 (36.6)
185 (33.0)
33 (5.9)
46.0 ± 8.6



Married/Partnered 480 (85.7)
Years of education (range = 4–24)
 Some college+

363 (64.8)
14.5 ± 2.7
Income comfortability
 Very uncomfortable/neutral
 Comfortable/very comfortable

412 (73.6)
148 (26.4)
2.9 ± 1.0
Years in the US (range = 0.1–62.3)
 <25% of lifetime
 ≥25% of lifetime

230 (41.1)
330 (58.9)
15.4 ± 9.7
English proficiency (range=1–4)
 Not at all/Poor/Fair
 Fluent

429 (76.6)
131 (23.4)
2.7 ± 0.9
Having health insurance 212 (37.9)
Receiving physician recommendation 88 (15.7)
Health literacy (range=0–52)
 Familiarity (range=0–12)
 Comprehension (range=0–12)
 Word recognition (range=0–12)
 Navigational health literacy (range=0–12)
 Numeracy (range=0–4)
19.9 ± 12.5
2.1 ± 2.9
3.2 ± 3.7
5.4 ± 3.8
7.1 ± 4.0
2.2 ± 1.4
Lifetime Pap test use 273 (48.8)
Triennial Pap test use 142 (25.4)