TABLE 3.

Adjusted associations of continuous deficit accumulation scores and number of perceived discrimination events and among African American cancer survivors reporting ever experiencing personal discrimination (n = 1257)

	β	SE	Lower confidence limit	Upper confidence limit	p
Perceived discrimination (count of major discrimination events)
0–1	Ref	—	—	—	—
2–3	0.025	0.007	0.010	0.040	.001
4–7	0.062	0.009	0.045	0.079	<.001
Sex
Male	Ref	—	—	—	—
Female	0.046	0.015	0.016	0.076	.003
Age group at enrollmenta	0.003	0.005	−0.006	0.013	.471
Education
<High school	0.034	0.017	0.001	0.067	.044
High school or GED	0.014	0.012	−0.009	0.037	.228
Some college	0.019	0.010	−0.001	0.038	.058
4-year degree	0.007	0.012	−0.016	0.030	.534
Graduate/professional degree	Ref	—	—	—	—
Employment status
Employed (full or part time)	Ref	—	—	—	—
Unemployed or disability	0.108	0.010	0.088	0.129	<.001
Retired	0.045	0.010	0.026	0.064	<.001
Other	0.026	0.018	−0.010	0.061	.152
Income (household)	−0.011	0.003	−0.017	−0.006	<.001
Insurance at enrollment
Medicare only	0.016	0.011	−0.005	0.038	.126
Medicare plus private	0.024	0.011	0.003	0.045	.024
Medicare plus Medicaid	0.052	0.013	0.027	0.078	<.001
Medicaid alone	−0.001	0.012	−0.025	0.023	.942
Private insurance or VA	Ref	—	—	—	—
Cancer site
Female breast	−0.017	0.017	−0.051	0.016	.314
Colorectal	−0.022	0.013	−0.048	0.005	.107
Lung	0.005	0.014	−0.024	0.033	.753
Prostate	Ref	—	—	—	—
Radiation therapy (vs. none)	0.023	0.007	0.009	0.037	.001
Time from diagnosis	0.000	0.000	−0.001	0.000	.640
Model fit, R2	0.286

Abbreviations: GED, general equivalency diploma; SE, standard error; VA, Veteran’s Administration.

^aSee age groups in Table 1. Other insurance set to missing (<1%). A total of 121 persons missing one of more model covariates. R² (from 0 to 1) indicates the percent of variance in deficit accumulation scores explained by the model covariates. Here, 28.6% of the variability in deficit accumulation scores was explained by the model covariates.