Table 4.

Table 4a. Associations between subject characteristics (dichotomous) and preferences by site
		VA Clinic Subjects		University Clinic Subjects
Characteristic		Percent Preferring Treatment (N= 45)	P value	Percent Preferring Treatment (N = 27)	P value
Race	White	46 (24)	0.9	57 (17)	0.3
	Other	48 (21)		71 (10)
Gender*	Male	-	-	50 (12)	0.09
	Female			75 (15)
Marital status	Married	32 (7)	0.1	55 (6)	0.6
	Not married	51 (38)		64 (21)
Education	Some college	46 (24)	0.9	64 (7)	0.9
	No college	48 (21)		61 (20)
Employment	Employed	36 (13)	0.1	56 (10)	0.5
	Unemployed	53 (32)		65 (17)
Alcohol abuse	Never	52 (15)	0.5	67 (14)	0.5
	Ever	45 (30)		56 (13)
Drug abuse	Never	33 (4)	0.3	86 (6)	0.1
	Ever	49 (41)		57 (21)
Health status	Excellent/very good	36 (8)	0.3	50 (4)	0.5
	Good/fair/poor	50 (37)		64 (23)
Mental illness	No	37 (21)	0.02	71 (20)	0.07
	Yes	60 (23)		44 (7)
Degree of fibrosis	Mild/none	24 (11)	<0.0001	50 (6)	0.4
	Moderate	61 (25)		62 (16)
	Severe	100 (9)		83 (5)
Genotype	1	45 (35)	0.2	56 (19)	0.08
	2	64 (9)		89 (8)

Table 4b. Associations between subject characteristics (continuous) and preferences by site.
	Median (range) VA Clinic Subjects			Median (range)University Clinic Subjects
Characteristic	Preferring treatment (N=45)	Not preferring treatment (N=51)	P value	Preferring treatment (N=27)	Not preferring treatment (N=17)	P value
Age	53 (39–64)	54 (34–70)	0.9	46 (23–64)	51 (26–69)	0.1
HCV-related quality of life	27 (90–70)	11 (0–80)	0.08	30 (2–77)	18 (0–84)	0.5
Expectation of developing cirrhosis	50 (0–100)	20 (0–85)	0.0002	50 (0–100)	50 (0–100)	0.8
Social support	53 (5–98)	62 (12–99)	0.1	84 (32–100)	67 (29–100)	0.2
Trust in physician	66 (36–75)	64 (45–79)	0.2	66 (48–77)	64 (50–77)	0.7
Decisional conflict	25 (0–50)	33 (90–73)	0.1	29 (0–58)	42 (12–71)	0.03

^*Unable to test the effect of gender at the VA.