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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2010 May 10;125(6):e1475–e1482. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-1796

Table 5.

Adequate Gist and Verbatim Understanding by Socio-Demographics (%)


Adequate Gist Understanding
OR (95% CI)
Adequate Verbatim Understanding§
OR (95% CI)
Age (yrs)
    25-34 (R) 64.3 53.1
    35-44 63.6 0.97 (0.84, 1.12) 54.5 1.06 (0.92, 1.21)
    45-55
61.6
0.89 (0.76, 1.05)
54.3
1.05 (0.88, 1.22)
Gender:
    Male (R) 62.8 58.8
    Female
63.4
1.01 (0.97, 1.06)
50.5*
0.86 (0.81, 0.90)
Race/ethnicity:
    Caucasian (R) 67.3 60.1
    African American 52.4* 0.54 (0.45, 0.64) 34.2* 0.35 (0.29, 0.42)
    Hispanic
56.5*
0.63 (0.53, 0.76)
41.0*
0.46 (0.39, 0.55)
Education:
    ≤ High school (R) 54.7 40.7
    Some college 62.7* 1.39 (1.18, 1.64) 51.6* 1.49 (1.26, 1.77)
    ≥Bachelor's Degree
68.1*
1.77 (1.49, 2.09)
63.4*
2.42 (2.05, 2.86)
Prior Research subject
    Yes (R) 65.9 58.0
    No
63.0
0.96 (0.89, 1.03)
53.6
0.92 (0.85, 1.01)
English Language
    Yes (R) 63.6 54.1
    No 56.5* 0.89 (0.79, 0.99) 49.0 0.90 (0.79, 1.03)

(R) = Reference group. OR = Odds Ratio, CI = Confidence Interval

*

P< 0.05 vs Reference group, ‡P< 0.01 vs African American

P< 0.01 vs some college/trade school

Adequate gist knowledge = ≥ 3 correct answers out of 4

§

Adequate verbatim knowledge = ≥ 5 correct answers out of 7