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Table 4 The Patient-Physician Partnership Study: Baseline Demographic and Clinical Characteristics for 279 Patients

From: A randomized controlled trial of interventions to enhance patient-physician partnership, patient adherence and high blood pressure control among ethnic minorities and poor persons: study protocol NCT00123045

Characteristic

No. of patients (%)

Mean (standard deviation)

Age, years

 

61.3 (11.8)

Gender, female

184 (66.0)

 

Race

  

   African American

173 (62.0)

 

   Asian

3 (1.1)

 

   White

101 (36.2)

 

Marital status, married

98 (35.4)

 

Education

  

   < High school graduate

87 (31.3)

 

   Years

 

11.8 (2.4)

REALM, ≥ 9th grade

173 (62.9)

 

Income

  

   < $10,000

98 (37.7)

 

   < $35,000

170 (70.0)

 

Employed

  

   Full time

51 (18.6)

 

   Part time

16 (5.8)

 

   Retired

96 (35.0)

 

   Disabled

59 (21.5)

 

Healthcare insurance

249 (90.0)

 

   Medicaid

85 (30.7)

 

   Medicare

107 (38.9)

 

   Other

140 (50.9)

 

   Prescription plan

257 (92.8)

 

MOS-SF-12 physical component

 

40.3 (12.2)

MOS-SF-12 mental component

 

50.5 (10.9)

Comorbid medical cond.

  

   Diabetes

121 (44.0)

 

   CVD

48 (17.4)

 

   Angina

25 (9.2)

 

   Heart failure

16 (5.9)

 

   Stroke

15 (5.4)

 

   Kidney failure

10 (3.7)

 

   Depression

64 (23.5)

 

Body mass index

 

32.9 (8.1)

Systolic blood pressure

 

135.3 (19.4)

Diastolic blood pressure

 

75.9 (12.9)

Blood pressure control (JNC-7)

130 (48.0)

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