Table 2.
Associations of frailty level and medical financial hardship among older adults with cancer.
| Financial hardship measures | Robust (Ref) |
Pre-frail | Frail | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | OR (95%CI)a | p | % | OR (95%CI)a | p | |
| Material | 4.6 | 8.4 | 1.70 (1.13, 2.58) | 0.012 | 18.4 | 3.19 (2.16, 4.69) | <0.001 |
| Psychological | 26.0 | 27.3 | 1.00 (0.81, 1.25) | 0.976 | 38.0 | 1.47 (1.15, 1.88) | 0.002 |
| Behavioral | 13.9 | 19.9 | 1.50 (1.15, 1.94) | 0.003 | 30.8 | 2.45 (1.85, 3.24) | <0.001 |
| Needed but didn’t get care | 7.9 | 12.5 | 1.61 (1.17, 2.22) | 0.004 | 22.7 | 2.90 (2.06, 4.06) | <0.001 |
| Delayed medical care | 11.9 | 16.8 | 1.43 (1.08, 1.90) | 0.013 | 26.2 | 2.26 (1.68, 3.03) | <0.001 |
| Other changes | 2.0 | 3.5 | 1.67 (0.97, 2.87) | 0.065 | 5.1 | 2.19 (1.23, 3.92) | 0.008 |
a ORs were conducted by multivariable logistic regressions. All regressions were controlled for age group, sex, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, health insurance coverage, family income, geographic region, survey years, number of cancer diagnoses, and time since diagnosis.