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. 2022 Feb 8;39(4):1612–1629. doi: 10.1007/s12325-021-02013-0

Table 2.

Patient demographics: comparison between intervention and control groups

Variable Intervention (N = 34) Control (N = 41) Total (N = 75) p value
Age, years, mean (SD) 58.68 (9.77) 55.15 (14.90) 56.75 (12.87) 0.240
Gender, n (%) 0.066
 Female 17 (50.00%) 29 (70.73%) 46 (61.33%)
 Male 17 (50.00%) 12 (29.27%) 29 (38.67%)
Race, n (%) 0.232
 White/Caucasian 26 (76.47%) 36 (87.80%) 62 (82.67%)
 Black/African American 7 (20.59%) 3 (7.32%) 10 (13.33%)
 Other 1 (2.94%) 2 (4.88%) 3 (4.00%)
Education, years, n (%) 0.011
 High school 10 (29.41%) 2 (4.88%) 12 (16.00%)
 GED or vocational school 1 (2.94%) 2 (4.88%) 3 (4.00%)
 13 years—bachelor’s degree 20 (58.82%) 25 (60.98%) 45 (60.00%)
 Higher degree 3 (8.82%) 12 (29.27%) 15 (20.00%)
Height, cm, mean (SD) 170.74 (11.50) 168.58 (7.99) 169.56 (9.73) 0.341
Weight at most recent clinic visit, kg, mean (SD) 85.64 (19.51) 89.55 (26.65) 87.78 (23.61) 0.479
BMI mean (SD) 29.33 (5.97) 31.58 (9.74) 30.56 (8.27) 0.243
Heart rate (HR), beats/min, mean (SD) 70.99 (17.32) 73.74 (13.78) 72.67 (15.17) 0.492
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg, mean (SD) 77.12 (9.69) 75.20 (8.08) 76.07 (8.84) 0.352
Charlson comorbidity index, mean (SD) 0.62 (1.16) 0.59 (0.89) 0.60 (1.01) 0.892
Katz scale score, mean (SD) 6.00 (0.00) 6.00 (0.00) 6.00 (0.00) 0.275
Lawton scale score, mean (SD) 8.00 (0.00) 8.00 (0.00) 8.00 (0.00) 0.275
Insurance, n (%) 0.269
 Yes 33 (97.06%) 41 (100.00%) 74 (98.67%)
 No 1 (2.94%) 0 (0.00%) 1 (1.33%)
Prior experience with a sleep tracker, n (%) 0.788
 Yes 25 (73.53%) 29 (70.73%) 54 (72.00%)
 No 9 (26.47%) 12 (29.27%) 21 (28.00%)
Medications at baseline n (%) 0.182
 Antidiabetic 2 (5.88%) 1 (2.44%) 3 (4.00%)
 Antihypertensive 5 (14.71%) 1 (2.44%) 6 (8.00%)
 Sedating 15 (44.12%) 19 (46.34%) 34 (45.33%)
 Other 12 (35.29%) 20 (48.78%) 32 (42.67%)