Table 3.
Characteristics of survey respondents and non-respondents
| Respondents n (%) or Mean ± (SD)
|
Non-respondents
|
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American |
Asian (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese) |
Caucasian | Filipino | Latino | Multiracial | Othera /unknown |
All respondents |
Non respondents Number (%) or Mean ± (SD) | |
| n (row %) | 3420 (16.9) | 2312 (11.4) | 4602 (22.8) | 2404 (11.9) | 3717 (18.4) | 2222 (11.0) | 1511 (7.5) | 20 188 (100) | 20 547 (100) |
| Survey Mode | |||||||||
| Telephone Interview | 1806 (52.8) | 971 (42.0) | 2051 (44.6) | 846 (35.2) | 2229 (60.0) | 1566 (70.5) | 960 (63.5) | 10429 (51.7) | 0 |
| Written-long | 771 (22.5) | 575 (24.9) | 973 (21.1) | 723 (30.1) | 676 (18.2) | 346 (15.6) | 224 (14.8) | 4288 (21.2) | 0 |
| Written-short | 439 (12.8) | 259 (11.2) | 469 (10.2) | 516 (21.5) | 448 (12.0) | 108 (4.9) | 154 (10.2) | 2393 (11.8) | 0 |
| Web | 404 (11.8) | 507 (21.9) | 1109 (24.1) | 319 (13.3) | 364 (9.8) | 202 (9.1) | 173 (11.4) | 3078 (15.2) | 0 |
| Female | 1939 (56.7) | 1019 (44.1) | 2035 (44.2) | 1246 (51.8) | 1886 (50.7) | 1122 (50.5) | 593 (39.3) | 9840 (48.7) | 9537 (46.4) |
| Age (years) | |||||||||
| 30–44 | 274 (8.0) | 137 (5.9) | 382 (8.3) | 168 (7.0) | 564 (15.2) | 253 (11.4) | 189 (12.5) | 1967 (9.7) | 2580 (12.6) |
| 45–59 | 1347 (39.4) | 934 (40.4) | 1794 (39.0) | 1106 (46.0) | 1639 (44.1) | 943 (42.4) | 695 (46.0) | 8458 (41.9) | 8755 (42.6) |
| 60+ | 1799 (52.6) | 1241 (53.7) | 2426 (52.7) | 1130 (47.0) | 1514 (40.7) | 1026 (46.2) | 627 (41.5) | 9763 (48.4) | 9212 (44.8) |
| Language preference English speaking | 3221 (94.2) | 1376 (59.5) | 4394 (95.5) | 1749 (72.8) | 2217 (59.6) | 1691 (76.1) | 1164 (77.0) | 15 812 (78.3) | 17 212 (83.8) |
| Mean A1C ⩾ 7% | 1655 (54.0) | 1087 (50.1) | 1915 (46.8) | 1352 (60.4) | 1957 (58.6) | 1098 (56.2) | 779 (57.9) | 9843 (54.1) | 8343 (51.3) |
| Mean LDL ⩾ 100 | 1250 (41.7) | 626 (28.9) | 1391 (34.6) | 634 (28.6) | 1202 (37.1) | 736 (38.1) | 482 (36.3) | 6321 (35.3) | 6909 (42.4) |
| Uncontrolled blood pressure (S>130 or D>80) | 1966 (61.4) | 913 (42.8) | 2264 (54.7) | 1041 (46.5) | 1746 (51.2) | 1089 (54.2) | 681 (49.5) | 9700 (52.4) | 9581 (54.3) |
| Missed appointment rate (per year) | 0.17 ± (0.18) | 0.10 ± (0.14) | 0.13 ± (0.16) | 0.13 ± (0.17) | 0.18 ± (0.19) | 0.17 ± (0.19) | 0.18 ± (0.19) | 0.15 ± (0.17) | 0.18 ± (0.22) |
| Poor medication adherenceb | 955 (37.1) | 461 (25.1) | 961 (28.2) | 592 (29.3) | 1247 (42.8) | 636 (36.4) | 424 (35.1) | 5276 (33.6) | 5108 (39.0) |
| Smoking (current) | 348 (10.2) | 93 (4.0) | 410 (9.0) | 147 (6.1) | 245 (6.6) | 200 (9.1) | 105 (7.0) | 1548 (7.7) | 1829 (9.0) |
| Practices SMBG | 1573 (46.0) | 1004 (43.4) | 2246 (48.8) | 1115 (46.4) | 1622 (43.6) | 1025 (46.1) | 623 (41.2) | 9208 (45.6) | 6532 (31.8) |
| Outpatient risk scorec | 2.4 (2.1) | 1.8 (1.1) | 2.1 (1.7) | 1.8 (1.0) | 1.9 (1.4) | 2.2 (1.6) | 1.9 (1.4) | 2.0 (1.6) | 1.8 (1.5) |
| Inpatient risk scorec | 2.6 (4.2) | 1.5 (2.0) | 2.2 (3.3) | 1.4 (2.1) | 1.8 (3.0) | 2.2 (3.9) | 1.7 (2.9) | 2.0 (3.2) | 1.8 (3.4) |
| Linguistically isolated neighbourhoodd | 105 (3.1) | 115 (5.0) | 55 (1.2) | 114 (4.8) | 281 (7.6) | 113 (5.1) | 62 (4.1) | 845 (4.2) | 1035 (5.1) |
| Economically deprived neighbourhoode | 827 (24.3) | 124 (5.4) | 346 (7.6) | 148 (6.2) | 668 (18.2) | 323 (14.7) | 167 (11.2) | 2603 (13.0) | 2724 (13.4) |
| Working class neighbourhoodf | 1440 (42.2) | 401 (17.4) | 1168 (25.8) | 884 (37.0) | 1749 (47.6) | 868 (39.4) | 464 (31.0) | 6974 (34.9) | 7566 (37.2) |
a
Includes Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, South Asian, other unspecified and unknown (did not answer).
b
⩾20% continuous medication gaps.63
c
They are weighted by patient’s health care utilization and severity of disease.64
d
⩾25% of households in census block group are linguistically isolated.
e
⩾20% of households in census block group are living below poverty line.
f
⩾66% of persons in census block group are employed in working class occupation.