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Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2009 Oct 7;77(3):384–390. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.09.008

Table 5.

Formal Test of Mediation (N=2013)

Predictor	Model 1 Feeling Informed	Model 2 Feeling Informed	Model 3 Satisfaction	Model 4 Satisfaction	Model 5 Satisfaction
Step 1
Race	0.04	0.03	0.06 ^*	0.06 ^*	0.04
Education	0.04	0.02	0.00	−0.01	−0.02
Gender	0.00	0.00	−0.06	−0.06	−0.06
Age	−0.16 ^***	−0.13 ^***	−0.06 ^*	−0.05	0.00
Marital Status	0.00	−0.01	0.08 ^**	0.08 ^**	0.08 ^**
Treatments Received	−0.03	−0.04	−0.04	−0.04	−0.03
Stage	−0.05	−0.05	−0.07 ^*	−0.07 ^*	−0.05 ^*
Breast	0.04	0.02	−0.06	−0.07 ^*	−0.08 ^*
Prostate	0.07	0.03	−0.04	−0.05	−0.06
Health Status	0.26 ^***	0.26 ^***	0.22 ^***	0.22 ^***	0.13 ^***
Step 2
PCIE		0.15 ^***		0.06 ^*	0.00
Step 3
Feeling Informed					0.35 ^***
Adjusted R²	0.12	0.14	0.08	0.08	0.18

p <.05;

^**

p<.01;

^***

p<.001.

Displayed values are standardized β coefficients, and explained adjusted variances (in bold).