Table 3.
Characteristics of Those Willing to Participate in Both Groups.
| Group and Characteristics | Recovered Cases (n = 315) |
Healthy Volunteers (n = 299) |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | Mean ± SD | n (%) | Mean ± SD | ||
| Age | |||||
| 18–30 | 45 (33.8) | 1.80 ± .64 | 81 (71.1) | 1.50 ± .58 | <0.0001 |
| 31–50 | 76 (76) | 30 (26.3) | |||
| >50 | 12 (9) | 3 (2.6) | |||
| Highest level of education | |||||
| Less than high school | 5 (3.8) | 3.15 ± .94 | 1 (.9) | 3.10 ± .74 | <0.0001 |
| High school | 11 (8.3) | 15 (13.2) | |||
| Bachelor's degree | 64 (48.1) | 81 (71.1) | |||
| Master's degree | 34 (25.6) | 15 (13.2) | |||
| PhD or higher | 19 (14.3) | 2 (1.8) | |||
| Understand clinical research study term | 104 (78.2) | 3.47 ± 1.20 | 91 (79.8) | 3.75 ± 1.10 | <0.0001 |
| Consider clinical research as an option for a treatment | 21 (15.8) | 2.1 ± 1.10 | 18 (15.8) | 1.86 ± 1.14 | <0.0001 |
| Decided or participated in a clinical research | 45 (33.8) | 1.80 ± .39 | 43 (37.7) | 1.79 ± .40 | <0.0001 |
| Willing to donate plasma | 112 (84.2) | 1.48 ± .78 | 87 (76.3) | 1.58 ± .84 | <0.0001 |
Note: ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .001.
A p-value of 5% or lower is often considered to be statistically significant.