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Table 2 Care Transition Measure score (CTM) according to demographic variables

From: Transitions from hospital to community care: the role of patient–provider language concordance

  

CTM (Mean, SD)

 

Total

Hebrew

Russian

Arabic

CTM score *

54.94 (14.25)

51.18 (10.86)

54.94 (15.93)

58.82 (14.91)

Gender

    

Male

54.02 (14.85)

53.22 (11.51)

56.55 (14.99)

57.54 (15.6)

Female

55.60 (13.08)

47.07 (9.21)

54.05 (16.73)

61.01 (14.06)

 

t = -0.53; p = 0.601

t = 1.60; p = 0.121

t = -0.41; p = 0.684

t = -0.61; p = 0.549

Education

    

High-School or less

56.40 (13.95)

51.00 (11.14)

61.40 (6.89)

60.26 (15.32)

Above high school

53.12 (14.38)

51.56 (10.83)

54.24 (16.53)

49.44 (7.56)

 

t = 1.11; p = 0.271

t = 0.13; p = 0.90

t = -0.74; p = 0.47

t = -1.37; p = 0.18

Economic status

    

Poor and very poor

55.35 (11.67)

52.93 (8.54)

50.38 (12.67)

60.32 (12.20)

Like others

52.43 (13.75)

50.09 (10.21)

51.62 (14.16)

56.36 (17.28)

Good and very good

60.13 (18.4)

50.48 (15.85)

74.18 (14.66)

60 (18.86)

 

F = 1.85; p = 0.164

F = 0.21; p = 0.811

F = 5.75; p = 0.008

F = 0.22; p = 0.802

Age

r = -0.13; p = 0.223

r = -0.07; p = 0.705

r = -0.11; p = 0.575

r = -0.10; p = 0.616

PCS

r = 0.22; p = 0.032

r = 0.25; p = 0.184

r = 0.34; p = 0.060

r = 0.04; p = 0.847

MCS

r = 0.14; p = 0.195

r = 0.45; p = 0.012

r = 0.01; p = 0.975

r = -0.18; p = 0.356

  1. SD = standard deviation; t = t-test for independent samples; F = one way ANOVA; r = Pearson correlation.
  2. *T-test for differences between groups: Hebrew-Russian p = 0.283; Hebrew – Arabic p = 0.026; Arabic-Russian p = 0.330.
  3. Significant values are bolded.