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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 Apr 12;75(10):2096–2106. doi: 10.1002/acr.25093

Table 5.

Domains of healthcare access and utilization by race, stratified by sex, n (%)1

Black or African American Other Race2 White

Male Participants n≤20 n≤20 n=29
Any reason for delay in care (past 12 months) 3 20 (≤100) 20 (≤100) 20 (≤69)
Any medication challenge due to cost barrier (past 12 months)4 0 (0) ≤20 (≤100) ≤20 (≤69)
Ever delayed care because their healthcare provider was different from them in race, ethnicity, gender, religion, beliefs or native language5 ≤20 (≤100) ≤20 (≤100) ≤20 (≤69)
Female Participants n=142 n=128 n=353
Any reason for delay in care (past 12 months) 3 64 (45) 73 (57) 157 (44)
Delay due to affordability6 34 (24) 28 (22) 85 (24)
Delay due to time constraint7 23 (16) 31 (24) 53 (15)
Delay due to transporation8 23 (16) 29 (23) 55 (16)
Delay due to nervousness to see healthcare provider 21 (15) 25 (20) 60 (17)
Any medication challenge due to cost barrier (past 12 months)4 48 (34) 43 (34) 151 (43)
Ever delayed care because their healthcare provider was different from them in race, ethnicity, gender, religion, beliefs or native language5 23 (16) 32 (25) 48 (14)

N/A: not applicable

1

Data summarized as n (%); according to the All of Us Research Program data and statistics dissemination policy, cell values and aggregate statistics that correspond to 1 to 20 participants are obscured to protect participant privacy. In these cases, P values are designated as N/A.

2

Other race corresponds to participants who self-reported as Another Single Population, Asian, More Than One Population, None Indicated, or None Of These

3

Present if participant reported any of a delay due to affordability, a delay due to time constrain, and delay due to transportation, or a delay due to nervousness to see healthcare provider in the past 12 months

4

Present if participant reported during the past 12 months they had skipped medication doses to save money, took less medicine to save money, delayed filling a prescription to save money, bought prescription medications from another country to save money, requested a lower cost medication from their doctor to save money or used alternative therapies to save money

5

Present if participant self-reposed they always, most of the time or some of the time have delayed or not gone to see a health care provider because they were different from the participant in race, ethnicity, gender, religion, beliefs or native language

6

Present if participant reported they had delayed getting care in the past 12 months because they could not afford the copay, the insurance deductible was too high or could not afford the deductible, or they had to pay out of pocket for some or all of the procedure

7

Present if participant reported they had delayed getting care in the past 12 months because they could not get time off work, could not get child care, or could not get elderly care

8

Present if participant reported they had delayed getting care in the past 12 months because they did not have transportation or they live in a rural area where distance to the health care provider is too far