Table 2.

Mean responses and correlations between individual survey items

Subscale	Item	Mean (SD)	Inter-item correlations
			Item 1	Item 2	Item 3	Item 4	Item 5	Item 6	Item 7	Item 8	Item 9	Item 10	Item 11	Item 12	Item 13	Item 14
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)	CAM1: How often did your child’s doctors ask if your child uses alternative medicines?	3.21 (1.70)	-	0.72	0.43	0.33	0.45	0.41	0.47	0.09	0.00	0.08	0.07	0.04	0.03	0.45
	CAM2: How often did your child’s doctors ask you about whether your child uses any traditional or home remedies?	2.70 (1.64)	-	-	0.37	0.28	0.46	0.51	0.58	0.11	0.02	0.09	0.05	0.04	0.02	0.37
Causal attribution of health problem (CAUSAL)	CAUSALI: How often did your child’s doctors seem interested in what you thought might be causing your child’s health problem?	4.18 (1.33)	-	-	-	0.75	0.29	0.25	0.24	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.02	−0.01	0.03	0.28
	CAUSAL2: How often did your child’s doctors really listen to what you thought was causing your child’s health problem?	4.37 (1.18)	-	-	-	-	0.34	0.35	0.24	0.00	0.05	0.04	−0.02	−0.06	−0.01	0.26
Family involvement (FAM)	FAM1: How often did your child’s doctors ask if you wanted to include a family member or a friend during your child’s medical visit?	2.79(1.71)	-	-	-	-	-	0.70	0.69	0.10	0.10	0.18	0.15	0.12	0.11	0.41
	FAM2: How often did your child’s doctor ask if you wanted to talk to your family or friends before mak- ing a decision about your child’s treat- ment?	2.68 (1.66)	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.75	0.18	0.17	0.22	0.16	0.14	0.15	0.37
Spirituality (SPIR)	SPIR 1: How often did your child’s doctors ask if you had any religious or spiritual beliefs that might influ- ence your children’s health or health care?	2.33 (1.67)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.23	0.16	0.27	0.20	0.18	0.17	0.36
Discrimination due to education (DIS_ED)a	DIS_ED1: How often did your child’s doctors make negative assump- tions about your level of education?	1.18 (0.73)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.81	0.89	0.70	0.69	0.66	0.04
	DIS_ED2: How often did your child’s doctors assume that you would not understand their explanations?	1.23 (0.77)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.81	0.67	0.66	0.67	0.11
Discrimination due to race/ethnicity (DIS_ RACE)a	DIS_RACE1: How often did your child’s doctors pay less attention to you because of your race or ethnicity?	1.15 (0.67)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.79	0.78	0.75	0.10
	DIS_RACE2. How often did you feel discriminated against by your child’s doctors because of your race or ethnicity?	1.10(0.56)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.98	0.95	0.13
Staffdis-discrimination due to race/ethnicity (STAFF_DIS_RACE)a	STAFF_DIS_RACE1. How often did you feel discriminated against by office staff because of your race or ethnicity?	1.12(0.58)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.96	0.11
	STAFF_DIS_RACE2. How often did office staff make negative assumptions about you because of your race or ethnicity?	1.12(0.58)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.10
Sensitivity to language needs (LANG)	LANG1: How often did your child’s doctors or office staff ask what language you want to speak in?	2.82 (1.69)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Survey items were adapted from Napoles et al. (2010). Respondents were asked how often, on average, their doctor did each survey item. Possible responses were 1 = Never, 2 = Rarely, 3 = Sometimes, 4 = Usually, and 5 = Always

^aIndicates items were reverse coded