Table 3.
Social determinants of health among women with self-reported PCOS, unrecognized PCOS, and no PCOS. Categories are mutually exclusive. N (%) or means (SD) shown
| Self-reported PCOS |
Unrecognized PCOS |
No PCOS | p-value, self-reported PCOS v. no PCOS |
p-value, unrecognized PCOS v. no PCOS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 43 | N = 135 | N = 1850 | |||
| High school education or less (n, %) | 5 (12%) | 30 (22%) | 389 (21%) | 0.13 | 0.74 |
| Household income < $50,000 (n, %) | 16 (37%) | 64 (47%) | 798 (43%) | 0.44 | 0.33 |
| Married (n, %) | 19 (44%) | 69 (51%) | 944 (51%) | 0.38 | 0.98 |
| Difficulty paying for basics (n, %) | 10 (23%) | 37 (27%) | 411 (22%) | 0.87 | 0.16 |
| Food insecurity (n, %) | 7 (16%) | 36 (27%) | 291 (16%) | 0.92 | < 0.001 |
| Usual source of medical care (n, %) | 41 (95%) | 132 (98%) | 1785 (96%) | 0.69 | 0.43 |
| Type of usual medical care (n, %) | 0.69 | 0.33 | |||
| Private physician/HMO | 38 (88%) | 112 (83%) | 1537 (83%) | ||
| Walk in clinic | 1 (2.3%) | 7 (5.2%) | 79 (4.3%) | ||
| Other clinic | 1 (2.3%) | 8 (5.9%) | 126 (6.8%) | ||
| Emergency department | 1 (2.33) | 5 (3.70) | 29 (1.57) | ||
| Private insurance or HMO (n, %) | 39 (90%) | 116 (86%) | 1567 (85%) | 0.28 | 0.70 |
| Medicaid or Medicare (n, %) | 1 (2%) | 14 (10%) | 116 (6%) | 0.52 | 0.06 |
| Out of pocket cost (n, %) | 32 (74%) | 112 (83%) | 1504 (81%) | 0.25 | 0.63 |
| Distance from home to usual source of medical care (minutes) | 15 (10) | 19 (12) | 18 (14) | 0.15 | 0.26 |
| Have not always had health insurance in the past 2 years (n, %) | 40 (93%) | 114 (84%) | 1649 (89%) | 0.62 | 0.095 |
| Did not seek care because of cost or lack of coverage (n, %) | 7 (16%) | 23 (17%) | 210 (11%) | 0.33 | 0.048 |
| Very hard, fairly hard, not too hard to get health services (n, %) | 17 (40%) | 50 (37%) | 518 (28%) | 0.097 | 0.02 |
| Very hard, hard, somewhat hard to pay for medical care (n, %) | 10 (23%) | 31 (23%) | 352 (19%) | 0.49 | 0.26 |