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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants by willingness to undergo kidney transplant

From: Factors affecting willingness to receive a kidney transplant among minority patients at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey

Characteristic

Willingness to undergo Kidney transplant

 

n

Yes

No

P-value

Age (%)

   

0.519

 18-39

24 (11.3)

13 (11.7)

10 (10.5)

 

 40-59

110 (51.6)

61 (55.0)

46 (48.4)

 

 60 and above

79 (37.1)

37 (33.3)

39 (41.1)

 

Gender (%)

   

0.531

 Female

117 (57.6)

63 (58.9)

49 (54.4)

 

Race (%)

    

 African American

192 (91.0)

102 (91.9)

86(91.5)

0.565!

 Other

19 (9.0)

9(8.1)

8(8.5)

 

Marital Status (%)

   

0.523

 Married

48 (23.4)

25(22.9)

21(23.6)

 

 Single

90 (43.9)

51(46.8)

37(41.6)

 

 Widowed

32 (15.6)

18(16.5)

12(13.5)

 

 Divorced

35 (17.1)

15(13.8)

19(21.4)

 

Income (%)

   

0.599!

 25 K or less

143 (70.4)

75 (71.4)

65 (70.7)

 

 Above 25 K up to 50 K

13 (6.4)

9 (8.6)

4 (4.4)

 

 Above 50 K

7 (3.5)

3 (2.9)

3 (3.3)

 

 Other#

40 (19.7)

18 (17.1)

20 (21.7)

 

Education (%)

   

0.129

  < high school

40 (19.1)

15 (13.8)

23 (24.5)

 

 High school

99 (47.1)

53 (48.6)

43 (45.7)

 

 College and above

71(33.8)

41 (37.6)

28 (29.8)

 

Employed (%)

   

0.227

 Employed

37 (18.4)

24(22.9)

12(13.3)

 

 Unemployed

89 (44.3)

45(42.9)

42(46.7)

 

 Retired

75 (37.3)

36(34.3)

36(40.0)

 

Insured (%)

    

 Yes

111 (54.15)

60 (55.1)

50 (54.4)

0.921

Type of insurance

   

0.900!

 Medicaid

32(27.8)

18(30.0)

14(25.9)

 

 Medicare

54(47.0)

27(45.0)

27(50.0)

 

 Private insurance

8(7.0)

5(8.3)

3(5.6)

 

 More than one insurance

21 (18.3)

10(16.7)

10(18.5)

 

Preference of living or deceased donor (%)

   

<.001!

 Deceased kidney

1(0.6)

1(1.0)

0 (0)

 

 Living kidney

56(32.0)

39(38.2)

16(22.2)

 

 I don’t want one

21(12.0)

3(2.9)

1(25.0)

 

 No preference

97(55.4)

59(57.8)

38(52.8)

 

Willingness to undergo Kidney transplant (%)

 

111(53.9)

95(46.1)

 
  1. !Fishers-Exact chi-square; *P-value < 0.05; 25 K = $25,000, 50 K = $50,000; #others = “Don’t know/not sure” or “prefer not to answer”. Note: Percentages may not add up due to rounding. P-values less than 0.001 were reported as < .001