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Table 2 Demographic characteristics

From: Impact of caregiver and parenting status on time trade-off and standard gamble utility scores for health state descriptions

Characteristics

Study 1

Study 2

Study 3

 

Caregivers (N = 30)

Non-caregivers (N = 50)

p-value

Caregivers (N = 47)

Non-caregivers (N = 111)

p-value

Caregivers (N = 29)

Non-caregivers (N = 97)

p-value

Age (mean, SD)

48.3 (11.5)

46.7 (15.9)

0.64

44.9 (11.1)

47.9 (15.6)

0.23

48.9 (11.2)

49.7 (16.9)

0.82

Gender (n,%)

         

Male

20 (66.7%)

21 (42.0%)

0.03

15 (31.9%)

65 (58.6%)

<0.01

12 (41.4%)

48 (49.5%)

0.44

Female

10 (33.3%)

29 (58.0%)

 

32 (68.1%)

46 (41.4%)

 

17 (58.6%)

49 (50.5%)

 

Ethnicity (n,%) *

         

White

15 (50.0%)

35 (70.0%)

0.07

41 (87.2%)

91 (82.0%)

0.42

10 (34.5%)

58 (59.8%)

0.02

Other

15 (50.0%)

15 (30.0%)

 

6 (12.8%)

20 (18.0%)

 

19 (65.5%)

39 (40.2%)

 

Marital status (n,%)

         

Single

8 (26.7%)

29 (58.0%)

0.02

10 (21.3%)

54 (48.6%)

<0.01

9 (31.0%)

59 (60.8%)

0.02

Married/Living with partner

11 (36.7%)

12 (24.0%)

 

26 (55.3%)

35 (31.5%)

 

8 (27.6%)

13 (13.4%)

 

Divorced/Separated/Widowed

11 (36.7%)

9 (18.0%)

 

11 (23.4%)

22 (19.8%)

 

12 (41.4%)

25 (25.8%)

 

Employment status (n,%)

         

Full-time work

8 (26.7%)

12 (24.0%)

0.12

17 (36.2%)

35 (31.5%)

0.11

7 (24.1%)

16 (16.5%)

0.15

Part-time work

10 (33.3%)

18 (36.0%)

 

16 (34.0%)

24 (21.6%)

 

12 (41.4%)

24 (24.7%)

 

Unemployed

1 (3.3%)

10 (20.0%)

 

2 (4.3%)

17 (15.3%)

 

3 (10.3%)

17 (17.5%)

 

Other

11 (36.7%)

10 (20.0%)

 

12 (25.5%)

35 (31.5%)

 

7 (24.1%)

40 (41.2%)

 

Education Level (n,%)

         

No university degree

16 (53.3%)

25 (50.0%)

0.77

34 (72.3%)

64 (57.7%)

0.08

14 (48.3%)

44 (45.4%)

0.78

University or postgraduate degree

14 (46.7%)

25 (50.0%)

 

13 (27.7%)

47 (42.3%)

 

15 (51.7%)

53 (54.6%)

 
  1. *For Study 1, other ethnicity includes 13 Black, 8 Asian, and 9 other races. For Study 2, other ethnicity includes 7 Black, 8 Asian, 1 Chinese and 10 mixed races. For Study 3, other ethnicity includes 24 Black, 10 Hispanic/Latino, 10 Asian, 5 Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and 9 other races.
  2. For Study 1, other employment includes 3 homemakers, 2 students, 15 retired and 1 disabled. For Study 2, other employment includes 8 homemakers, 9 students, 27 retired, and 3 disabled. For Study 3, other employment includes 3 homemakers, 8 students, 15 retired, 19 disabled and 1 other.
  3. P-values are for the comparison between caregivers and non-caregivers. Continuous variables were compared with t-tests, and categorical variables were compared with chi-square analysis.