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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Q Community Health Educ. 2019 Jun 26;40(1):7–16. doi: 10.1177/0272684X19857427

Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics, Health Behaviors, and Social Determinants of Health of Respondents by Race and Ethnicity (Total n = 3,787).

Whites Blacks
n % n %
Demographics
Gender
 Male 1,292 37.2 119 37.4
 Female 2,177 62.8 199 62.6
Marital status
 Unmarried 1,619 46.7 210 66.0
 Married 1,850 53.3 108 34.0
Age
 ≥65 years 174 5.0 17 5.3
 45–64 years 1,001 28.9 102 32.1
 18–44 years 2,294 66.1 199 62.6
Clinical conditions
Cancer type
 Breast 838 24.2 90 28.3
 Gynecologic 440 12.7 30 9.4
 Head and neck 149 4.3 7 2.2
 Gastrointestinal 310 8.9 35 11.0
 Hematologic 205 5.9 18 5.7
 Genitourinary 716 20.6 80 25.2
 Lung 135 3.9 16 5.0
 Other 676 19.5 42 13.2
Multiple cancer
 One cancer type 2,468 71.1 258 81.1
 Two or more cancer types 1,001 28.9 60 18.9
Treatment
 No treatment 439 12.7 46 14.5
 In treatment 435 12.5 54 17.0
 Complete treatment 2,595 74.8 218 68.6
Body mass index (BMI; kg/m2)
 BMI ≤ 25 1,089 31.4 92 28.9
 BMI ≥ 25 2,380 68.6 226 71.1
Economic stability items
Employment
 Not working 2,528 72.9 247 77.7
 Employed 941 27.1 71 22.3
Annual household income
 ≤$50,000 2,121 61.1 231 72.6
 ≥$50,000 1,348 38.9 87 27.4
Medical bills
 No 3,416 98.5 295 92.8
 Yes 53 1.5 23 7.2
Literacy item
Education
 No college degree 1,272 36.7 151 47.5
 College degree 2,197 63.3 167 52.5
Health-care access items
Insurance
 No 112 3.2 9 2.8
 Yes 3,357 96.8 309 97.2
Medical cost
 Not able to see physician 296 8.5 42 13.2
 Able to see physician 3,173 91.5 276 86.8