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Table 3 Baseline Patient Characteristicsa

From: Acceptability of telephone-based pain coping skills training among African Americans with osteoarthritis enrolled in a randomized controlled trial: a mixed methods analysis

Characteristic

Total

(N = 93)

DVAHCS

(N = 48, 52%)

UNC

(N = 45, 48%)

Female; N (%)

47 (50.5%)

11 (22.9%)

36 (80.0%)

Hispanic/Latino; N (%)

2 (2.2%)

1 (2.1%)

1 (2.2%)

Education - Some education above High School; N (%)

71 (76.3%)

36 (75.0%)

35 (77.8%)

Married or living with partner; N (%)

37 (39.8%)

24 (50.0%)

13 (28.9%)

Working; N (%)

30 (32.3%)

14 (29.2%)

16 (35.6%)

Household financial state: At least enough to meet basic expenses with a little left over; N (%)

58 (62.4%)

31 (64.6%)

27 (60.0%)

Age at baseline, years; mean (SD)

59.4 (10.2)

58.6 (9.3)

60.2 (11.1)

BMI; mean (SD)

36.2 (8.8)

33.3 (6.6)

39.4 (9.8)

WOMAC Total (Scale 0 to 96); mean (SD)

51.4 (19.0)

54.2 (18.2)

48.3 (19.7)

Coping Strategies Questionnaire: Total Coping Attempts (Scale 0 to 216); mean (SD)

95.4 (35.4)

94.1 (39.9)

96.9 (30.1)

Pain Catastrophizing: Total (Scale 0 to 52); mean (SD)

18.5 (11.9)

19.9 (12.4)

17.0 (11.2)

Total Number Comorbidities; mean (SD)

7.9 (3.6)

7.3 (3.5)

8.6 (3.6)

  1. aDescriptive statistics were calculated for participant baseline characteristics using means and standard deviations for continuous variables and frequencies and percentages for categorical variables