TABLE 4.

Exploring the Relationship Between Parental Communication and Health Care Use in the Past Year According to Age, Family Composition, and Beliefs About Masculinity

Parental Communication About Reproductive Health Variablea	Communication With Mother Only			Communication With Father Only			Communication With Both Parents, Separately			Communication With Both Parents, Together
	RR	95% CI	P	RR	95% CI	P	RR	95% CI	P	RR	95% CI	P
All	1.03	0.91–1.16	.652	1.15	0.99–1.32	.068	1.15	1.03–1.29	.017	1.14	1.03–1.28	.014
Age
Younger	1.05	0.88–1.25	.576	1.15	0.94–1.42	.166	1.11	0.94–1.32	.228	1.20	1.03–1.39	.022
Older	1.02	0.87–1.19	.835	1.12	0.91–1.39	.291	1.17	1.01–1.35	.043	1.10	0.94–1.28	.225
Family composition
Single-parent household	1.14	0.93–1.40	.205	1.24	0.93–1.67	.149	1.14	0.89–1.46	.309	1.19	0.90–1.56	.217
2-parent household	0.96	0.82–1.11	.557	1.11	0.94–1.32	.205	1.15	1.01–1.30	.033	1.12	1.00–1.26	.061
Beliefs about masculinity
Less traditional beliefs	1.11	0.80–1.54	.527	1.53	1.07–2.20	.020	1.21	0.90–1.63	.203	1.35	1.02–1.79	.037
Neutral beliefs	0.98	0.86–1.13	.807	0.98	0.82–1.18	.850	1.09	0.96–1.24	.176	1.07	0.94–1.21	.294
More traditional beliefs	1.26	0.89–1.78	.193	1.61	1.13–2.29	.009	1.36	0.93–2.00	.115	1.55	1.09–2.20	.014

The data were controlled for all other factors in Table 3.

^aReference is no communication.