Table 5:
Differences between demographic groups in barriers discussing sexuality with healthcare providers
| Thematic clusters Effect Estimate (Std. Error) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictor | X | Judgement | Not Difficult |
Fear | Awkwardness | Embarrassment | Nothing | Lack of Trust | |
| Continuous predictors | |||||||||
| Age | 0.003 (0.040) | 0.040 (0.050) | 0.011 (0.035) | −0.022 (0.041) | −0.162 (0.088) | −0.037 (0.048) | 0.087 (0.046)* | 0.039 (0.033) | |
| Gender Typicality | 0.002 (0.006) | −0.002 (0.008) | 0.012 (0.008) | −0.005 (0.005) | −0.005 (0.007) | 0.012 (0.008) | −0.019 (0.007)*** | −0.002 (0.006) | |
| Heritage Acculturation | −0.046 (0.035) | −0.002 (0.050) | 0.010 (0.035) | 0.018 (0.032) | −0.013 (0.042) | 0.074 (0.044)* | −0.049 (0.052) | −0.024 (0.030) | |
| Mainstream Acculturation | 0.020 (0.034) | 0.030 (0.049) | 0.065 (0.035)* | −0.056 (0.030)* | 0.007 (0.040) | −0.001 (0.039) | 0.002 (0.005) | −0.019 (0.028) | |
| Religiosity total | −0.011 (0.033) | −0.083 (0.051) | 0.015 (0.031) | −0.046 (0.031) | 0.009 (0.040) | −0.017 (0.039) | −0.725 (0.005) | 0.040 (0.028) | |
| Categorical predictors | |||||||||
| Parental SES (reference group: ≤ High school degree) | College or technical degree | −0.242 (0.350) | 0.046 (0.544) | 0.103 (0.380) | −0.519 (0.308)* | 0.554 (0.515) | 0.462 (0.489) | 1.12 (0.779) | −0.100 (0.339) |
| Graduate degree | −0.648 (0.399) | 0314 (0.579) | 0.278 (0.402) | −1.006 (0.356)*** | 0.253 (0.551) | 0.587 (0.512) | 1.013 (0.819) | 0.370 (0.353) | |
| Gender/sex (reference group: Female) | Male | 0.281 (0.252) | −1.922 (0.618)*** | 0.518 (0.232)** | −0.253 (0.241) | −0.441 (0.328) | 0.750 (0.283)*** | 0.054 (0.402) | −0.371 (0.228) |
| Sexual Orientation (reference group: Heterosexual) | Bisexual | 0.233 (0.351) | −0.053 (0.528) | 0.020 (0.381) | 0.0399 (0.305) | −0.388 (0.459) | 0.975 (0.401)** | 0.414 (0.483) | −0.926 (0.362)** |
| Mostly heterosexual | −0.259 (0.346) | 0.379 (0.411) | −0.044 (0.311) | 0.055 (0.288) | −0.619 (0.434) | 0.695 (0.345)** | −0.019 (0.500) | −0.055 (0.265) | |
| Other | 0.861 (0.879) | 0.598 (1.156) | −0.088 (1.133) | 0.643 (0.789) | N/A | 1.243 (1.142) | N/A | N/A | |
| Race (reference group: white) | Non-white | −0.355 (0.294) | −0.291 (0.422) | 0.098 (0.293) | 0.419 (0.271) | 0.095 (0.365) | −0.101 (0.334) | −0.415 (0.434) | 0.085 (0.264) |
| Religion in family of origin (reference group: Protestant) | Evangelical | −0.783 (0.395)** | 0.156 (0.527) | 0.542 (0.359) | 0.260 (0.351) | 0.029 (0.501) | 0.044 (0.509) | −0.534 (0.619) | −0.054 (0.343) |
| Non-denominational Christian | −0.477 (0.391) | −0.425 (0.593) | −0.025 (0.411) | 0.320 (0.366) | 0.403 (0.485) | 0.453 (0.489) | 0.121 (0.549) | −0.072 (0.352) | |
| Catholic | −0.963 (0.338)*** | −0.349 (0.471) | 0.306 (0.312) | −0.106 (0.313) | 0.343 (0.400) | 0.550 (0.401) | −0.148 (0.483) | 0.215 (0.272) | |
| Other | −0.242 (0.506) | −0.450 (0.853) | 0.551 (0.514) | 0.523 (0.474) | −0.290 (0.825) | 0.335 (0.651) | −1.213 (1.108) | −0.220 (0.517) | |
| None/Agnostic | −0.180 (0.572) | 0.455 (0.769) | 0.468 (0.581) | 0.169 (0.589) | 0.985 (0.665) | 1.23 (0.632)* | N/A | −2.060 (1.056)* | |
| Atheist | −0.604 (0.467) | −1.343 (0.844) | −0.189 (0.518) | −0.071 (0.429) | 0.695 (0.557) | 0.485 (0.529) | −0.167 (0.752) | 0.524 (0.393) | |
Note: Cells with N/A indicate there were no participants in that demographic group who endorsed that thematic cluster.
p < 0.001 is indicated by ***;
p < 0.01 is indicated by **;
p < 0.05 is indicated by *