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Table 1 NPART questions on socioeconomic factors by preparedness to participate or not in digital health research

From: A research tool for measuring non-participation of older people in research on digital health

   

Preparedness to participate

Chi2 / t value

p-valuea

  

Total sample

n (valid column %)

Decliner group

n (valid column %)

Consenting group

n (valid column %)

Education

Low education

32 (46)

15 (60)

17 (39)

  

High education

37 (54)

10 (40)

27 (61)

2.92

0.087

Missing

1

0

1

  

Age (mean (SD))

 

68.8 (6.2)

69.6 (6.1)

68.3 (6.2)

0.79

0.430

Job position

Workers

25 (36)

11 (44)

14 (31)

  

Clerks

26 (37)

8 (32)

18 (40)

  

Self-employed

12 (17)

4 (16)

8 (18)

  

Retired/no job

7 (10)

2 (8)

5 (11)

–

0.785a

Missing

0

0

0

  

Gender

Women

33 (47)

12 (48)

21 (47)

  

Men

37 (53)

13 (52)

24 (53)

0.01

0.91

Missing

0

0

0

  

Partner

Yes

57 (83)

19 (79)

38 (84)

  

No

12 (17)

5 (21)

7 (16)

–

0.740a

Missing

1

1

0

  

Living alone

Yes

55 (82)

18 (82)

37 (82)

  

No

12 (18)

4 (18)

8 (18)

–

1.000a

Missing

3

3

0

  

Total (n = 70)

 

70

25 (36)

45 (64)

  
  1. aThe p-value generally refers to the Chi2 statistics, but Fisher’s exact test was performed if frequencies smaller than 5 were expected in any of the cells for a given variable