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Table 1 Participants’ Descriptive Details (n = 45)

From: The importance of informational, clinical and personal support in patient experience with total knee replacement: a qualitative investigation

  

Count

Age, average

65 years

 

Sex

Female

30

Male

15

Marital status

Married or common-law

34

Widowed

3

Single, divorced or separated

8

Household income

< $40,000

12

$40,000 to < $60,000

10

$60,000 to < $80,000

10

$80,000 or more

10

Missing

3

Education

High school or less

19

College/technical school

12

Undergraduate degree

3

Graduate degree

8

Other

2

Missing

1

Ethnicity

North American

33

European

8

South Asian

2

Central/South American

1

Other

1

Received TKA surgery on first or second knee

First knee

32

Second knee

12

Missing

1

Time between knee symptoms and first time seeing surgeon

<6 months

9

≥6 to < 12 months

9

≥12 months

25

Do not remember

2

Satisfaction with TKA surgery results, self-evaluated 6 months post-surgerya

Very satisfied

8

Satisfied

10

Neutral

15

Dissatisfied

9

Very dissatisfied

2

Missing

1

Willing to have TKA surgery again, self-evaluated 6 months post-surgery

Yes

25

Uncertain

12

No

8

  1. aThe 5-point satisfaction scale can also be reduced to a 2-point satisfaction scale where satisfied is composed of those who answered “very satisfied” or “satisfied” on the 5-point scale and dissatisfied is composed of those who answered “neutral,” “dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” on the 5-point scale