with children. Two lived with friends, and four lived alone.

Information on the number of family members in a 50 mile

radius of the hospital was also collected. The vast majority

of individuals, 23, had between one and three family members

living in the area. Most had only their spouse. Three

individuals had between four and six family members in the

area, and one individual had more than seven. Only three had

no family in the area at all.

 The socioeconomic status of the sample was also evalu-

ated for use as an independent variable. All classes of

socioeconomic status were represented by individuals in the

group. Two were determined to be in Class I, 7 in Class II,

6 in Class III, 10 in Class IV, and 5 in Class V.

 The disease variable co-morbidity was also one of the

variables evaluated in this part of the analysis. Values for

patients in the sample ranged from the lowest to the highest

possible; that is, from 0 to 18. The mean value was 2.83 and

the standard deviation was 5.62. An unexpected difficulty in

the collection of this information from the patients' physi-

cians resulted in available data on only 12 of the 30

patients at the time of the analysis of data.1





 The completion of this scale necessitated a review of
the patients' records by the primary physicians. The
schedules of two of the participating physicians did not
permit this.