TABLE 3.
Patient demographics at baseline
| Characteristics | Total sample (n = 89) |
SystemCHANGE™ (n = 45) |
Attention-control (n = 44) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age M (SD) | 51.8 (10.5) | 53.0 (11.2) | 50.7 (9.7) |
| Gender | |||
| Male, n (%) | 52 (58.4) | 30 (66.67) | 22 (50) |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | |||
| Caucasian | 34 (38) | 16 (33) | 19 (43) |
| African American | 54 (61) | 31 (65) | 25 (57) |
| Other | 1 (1) | 1 (2) | |
| Education level, n (%) | |||
| College/some college | 59 (66) | 28 (62) | 31 (70) |
| High school/some high school | 30 (34) | 17 (38) | 13 (30) |
| Marital status, n (%) | |||
| Married | 51 (48) | 20 (44) | 31 (70) |
| Divorced | 18 (20) | 12 (27) | 6 (14) |
| Never married | 16 (17) | 9 (20) | 7 (16) |
| Living with someone | 2 (2) | 2 (4) | |
| Widowed | 2 (3) | 2 (4) | |
| Employment disabled, n (%) | |||
| Disabled | 32 (36) | 15 (33) | 17 (39) |
| Full time | 30 (34) | 15 (33) | 15 (34) |
| Part time | 9 (10) | 2 (4) | 7 (16) |
| Unemployed | 7 (8) | 4 (9) | 3 (7) |
| Retired | 11 (12) | 9 (20) | 2 (5) |
| Etiology, n (%) | |||
| Hypertension | 32 (36) | 20 (44) | 12 (28) |
| Diabetes mellitus | 11 (12) | 5 (11) | 6 (14) |
| Polycystic kidney disease | 10 (11) | 5 (11) | 5 (11) |
| Other | 36 (40) | 15 (33) | 21 (48) |
| Number of kidney transplants, n (%) | |||
| 0 | 75 (84) | 37 (82) | 38 (86) |
| 1 | 12 (13) | 6 (13) | 6 (14) |
| >1 | 2 (2) | 2 (4) | |
| Type of current transplant cadaveric, n (%) | 64 (72) | 33 (73) | 31 (70) |
| Uses pillbox, n (%) | 69 (75) | 39 (82) | 30 (68) |
| Number of current prescribed meds, M (SD) | 9.04 (4.5) | 9.22 (4.2) | 8.86 (4.8) |
| Number of over-the-counter medication, M (SD) | 2.08 (1.7) | 2.07 (1.7) | 2.09 (1.6) |
| Medication adherence score | 0.67 (0.15) | 0.67 (0.18) | 0.68 (0.12) |
| Moderate medication adherence (70%−84%) | 0.77 (0.04) | 0.78 (0.04) | 0.77 (0.05) |
| Low medication adherence (<70%) | 0.55 (0.15) | 0.52 (0.20) | 0.57 (0.08) |
SD, standard deviation. [Correction added on 15 November 2019, after first online publication: The fourth column heading was corrected to Attention-control (n=44)].