Table 6.

Patient, Physician and Relational Communication Factors Associated with Patient Reports of a Shared Decision-making Process for Colorectal Cancer Screening: Multivariable Logistic Regression Results (N=326).

	Odds Ratio (95% CI)	P value
Patient and Physician Socio-demographic Characteristics
Patient Age	0.10 (0.9-1.0)	0.84
Patient Female Gender	1.14 (0.9-2.0)	0.67
Patient Race
African American	1.0
White	1.22 (0.7 – 1.9)	0.40
Other	1.14 (0.6 – 2.0)	0.85
Patient Education
Less than High School Diploma	1.16 (0.3-4.8)	0.84
High School Diploma	1.0
Some College or More	1.10 (0.7-1.8)	0.69
Patient Income
<$20,000	1.23 (0.5-3.1)	0.67
$20,000 - $60,000	1.0
>$60,000	0.79 (0.5-1.4)	0.41
Patient Unemployed Status	1.36 (0.7-2.5)	0.32
Physician Male Gender	0.57 (0.4-0.9)	<0.02
Physician Race
African American	1.0
White	0.89 (0.5-1.5)	0.65
Other	0.74 (0.4-1.3)	0.29
Physician Age in Years	0.99 (0.9, 1.0)	0.32
General Internal Medicine	0.99 (0.7-1.4)	0.96
Family Medicine	1.0
Physician-Patient Race Concordance	0.86 (0.6-1.2)	0.40
Physician-Patient Gender Concordance	0.88 (0.5-1.6)	0.66
Observer-rated Elements of SDM
Element 1: MD and patient involved in DM process	0.76 (0.5-1.2)	0.27
Element 2: MD and patient share information	1.01 (0.6-1.6)	0.98
Element 3: MD and patient express treatment preferences	0.60 (0.2-1.8)	0.37
Element 4: MD and patient agree on treatment	0.77 (0.3-2.0)	0.60
Relational Communication
Relational Communication Latent Factor Score	1.33 (1.0-1.7)	0.03