Table 5.
Japanese Americans Only: Relationship of Changing Physicians and Physician (MD) Ethnicity With Trust in Physician
| Did Not Want to Change MD | OK to Change MD | |||||||||
| Previous MD | Current MD | n | Mean Previous MD Trust | Mean Current MD Trust | Change | n | Mean Previous MD Trust | Mean Current MD Trust | Change | Overall Difference |
| Japanese | Japanese | 46 | 88.9 | 85.8 | −3.1 | 32 | 74.7 | 79.2 | 4.5 | 7.6* |
| White | 6 | 93.1 | 80.5 | −12.6 | 9 | 75.0 | 82.4 | 7.4 | 20.0 | |
| Other | 6 | 91.7 | 68.1 | −23.6 | 6 | 66.7 | 68.1 | 1.4 | 25.0 | |
| White | Japanese | 7 | 89.3 | 85.7 | −3.6 | 6 | 61.1 | 80.6 | 19.5 | 43.1* |
| White | 23 | 91.3 | 84.8 | −6.5 | 21 | 73.4 | 79.8 | 6.4 | 12.9* | |
| Other | 6 | 81.9 | 77.8 | −4.1 | 16 | 72.4 | 77.1 | 4.7 | 8.8 | |
| Other | Japanese | 4 | 85.4 | 72.9 | −12.5 | 3 | 63.9 | 83.3 | 19.4 | 31.9 |
| White | 4 | 87.5 | 64.6 | −22.9 | 12 | 69.4 | 75.7 | 6.3 | 29.2† | |
| Other | 10 | 89.2 | 75.8 | −13.4 | 16 | 66.7 | 65.6 | −1.1 | 12.3* | |
| Overall | 112 | 89.3 | 81.8 | −7.5‡ | 121 | 71.3 | 76.7 | 5.4† | 12.9‡ | |
* P value <.05.
† P value <.01.
‡ P value <.001.