Table 1 Characteristics of patient participants
Clinical characteristics | |
 Gender (M/F) | 66 (67%) /33 (33%) |
 Age, years | 67 ± 12 |
 Diabetes | 28 (28%) |
 Urban / rural | 57 (58%) / 42 (42%) |
Ethnicity | |
 Caucasian | 82 (83%) |
 Asian | 4 (4%) |
 African American | 1 (1%) |
 First Peoples | 4 (4%) |
 Pacific Islander | 1 (1%) |
 No data | 7 (7%) |
Employment Status | |
 Retired due to age | 45 (45%) |
 Retired due to disability | 23 (23%) |
 Medical leave of absence | 8 (8%) |
 Unemployed | 2 (2%) |
 Employed full time | 6 (6%) |
 Employed part time | 6 (6%) |
 Homemaker | 1 (1%) |
 No data | 8 (8%) |
Dialysis modality | |
 Peritoneal dialysis | 85 (86%) |
 Conventional home hemodialysis | 9 (9%) |
 Daily home hemodialysis | 4 (4%) |
 Nocturnal home hemodialysis | 1 (1%) |
Previous use of tablet computer | |
 Yes / No | 42 (42%) / 57 (57%) |