. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 20.

Published in final edited form as: Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2019 Mar 25;15(5):499–509. doi: 10.1080/17483107.2019.1587015

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants across group.

	Group			Group difference
	Waitlist (n = 27)	Service dog (n = 64)	Total (N = 91)	t	χ ²	p
Age, years, M (S.D.)	38.30 (20.23)	31.34 (15.79)	34.82 (18.01)	−1.593		.119
Female, n (%)	15 (56%)	33 (52%)	48 (53%)		0.121	.727
Primary diagnosis category, n (%)					8.987	.061
Seizure	9 (33%)	16 (25%)	25 (28%)
Musculoskeletal	5 (19%)	11 (17%)	16 (18%)
Neuromuscular	10 (37%)	35 (55%)	44 (50%)
Developmental/intellectual	0 (0%)	2 (3%)	2 (2%)
Diabetes	3 (11%)	0 (0%)	3 (3%)
Has a pet dog, n (%)	19 (70.37)	29 (45.31)	48 (52.75)		4.784	.029

M: mean; S.D.: standard deviation; n: partial sample size; N: total sample size; %: percentage of participants.