Table 1.
Participants’ Demographic Information
| Characteristics | Transplant Patientsa |
Dialysis Patients |
|---|---|---|
| N | 72 | 27 |
| Age, mean y | 54 | 55 |
| Gender | ||
| Female | 35 | 12 |
| Male | 28 | 11 |
| Did not respond | 9 | 4 |
| Race | ||
| White | 20 | 3 |
| Black or African American | 15 | 9 |
| Asian | 17 | 7 |
| Other | 2 | 1 |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Hispanic | 18 | 7 |
| Primary language | ||
| English | 67 | 25 |
| Spanish | 5 | 2 |
| Education | ||
| HS, GED, or less | 12 | 5 |
| Some college | 11 | 7 |
| Associate or bachelor’s | 24 | 9 |
| Postgraduate | 20 | 4 |
| Did not respond | 5 | 2 |
| PHQ-4 score | ||
| 0-5 | 58 | 20 |
| 6-12 | 9 | 5 |
| Did not respond | 5 | 2 |
Abbreviations: GED, general equivalency diploma; HS, high school; PHQ-4, Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety.
a
Transplant patients were comprised of 68 kidney transplant patients, 2 heart transplant patients, and 2 lung transplant patients.