Table 1.

Demographic, functioning, and socioeconomic characteristics by neighborhood socioeconomic status (nSES) tertile^a among participants included in the study sample who were enrolled in the CARES ancillary study.

	Overall (n = 284^b)		Low nSES (n = 131)		Mid nSES (n = 88)		High nSES (n = 65)

Variable	Mean/%	SD	Mean/%	SD	Mean/%	SD	Mean/%	SD
Age at stroke	74.3	0.4	73.3	0.7	74.4	0.8	76.2	0.8
Female	49.6		59.5		40.9		41.5
White	59.5		35.1		73.9		89.2
NIHSS	2.0	0.2	2.2	0.3	2.5	0.5	0.9	0.3
Education
< HS	13.7		20.6		10.2		4.6
HS graduate	26.4		29.0		27.3		20.0
Some college	27.5		27.5		30.7		23.1
College graduate +	32.4		22.9		31.8		52.3
Income
Refused	11.3		13.7		10.2		7.7
< $20,000	21.5		32.8		18.2		3.1
$20,000 - $34,999	31.0		29.0		34.1		30.8
$35,000 - $74,999	26.4		18.3		25.0		44.6
$75,000 and above	9.9		6.1		12.5		13.8
nSES	−0.3	0.1	−1.0	0.0	−0.2	0.0	1.0	0.1
PH-QOL post-stroke
6–12 months	39.9	0.6	38.6	0.9	38.6	1.1	44.3	1.3
18 months	39.9	0.8	37.7	1.2	39.3	1.3	45.3	1.6
27 months	40.6	0.8	39.5	1.3	39.5	1.4	44.4	1.7
36 months	40.1	0.9	40.4	1.2	37.3	1.5	43.4	1.8

Note. CARES = Caring for Adults Recovering from the Effects of Stroke; nSES = neighborhood socioeconomic status; NIHSS = National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; HS = high school; PH-QOL = physical health-related quality of life;

nSES tertile cut points were generated based on tertiles of nSES for the contiguous United States

Of the 360 participants within the Caring for Adults Recovering from the Effects of Stroke (CARES) project, 55 did not have an adjudicated stroke, 11 participants first observation was beyond 36 months post-stroke, and 10 participants’ stroke event occurred after the follow-up observations.