Table 1.

Percentage of Latina Immigrants With High vs. Low Satisfaction in their Health-care Relationships According to Personal and Health-care Related Factors (N = 166)

Satisfaction with health care*
	Total	Low satisfaction*	High satisfaction*	P-value
	N	%	%
Age (m = 51.60; SD 8.9)
40–44	38	52.63	47.37	.08
45–49	41	43.90	56.10
50 and over	87	32.18	67.82
Education (highest completed)
High school diploma or less	87	33.33	66.67	.08
Some college or more	79	46.84	53.16
Region of birth
Central America	51	31.37	68.63	.17
North America (Mexico)	19	31.58	68.42
South America	96	45.83	54.17
Language
Monolingual (Spanish only)	124	39.52	60.48	.95
Other (English and Spanish)	41	39.02	60.98
Marital status
Married/living as married	95	46.32	53.68	.05
Single (divorced, widowed)	71	30.99	69.01
Insurance
Yes	71	38.03	61.97	.82
No	93	39.78	60.22
Perceived health-care racism
Agree — strongly agree	86	51.16	48.84	<.001
Disagree — strongly disagree	79	27.85	72.15
Experienced discrimination
Yes	68	57.35	42.65	<.001
No	97	26.80	73.20
Overall trust in providers
High trust	88	27.27	72.73	<.001
Low trust	74	56.76	43.24
Doctor’s explanation of health problems or treatment
Poor — fair	35	62.86	37.14	<.001
Good — excellent	130	33.08	66.92
How often you leave with unanswered questions
Always — some of the time	55	58.18	41.82	<.001
Never — almost never	108	30.56	69.44
Length of medical relationship
<2 years	59	47.46	52.54	.13
≥2 years	107	35.51	64.49

*On a scale of 0–10 (high satisfaction: ≥5; low satisfaction: <5)

When column frequencies do not add up to 166, it is because of missing values for which we felt imputation would be inappropriate