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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Educ. 2013 Sep;28(3):458–465. doi: 10.1007/s13187-013-0487-8

Table 3.

Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of language and immigrant characteristics predicting stage unawareness, metastasis unawareness and information desire after controlling for the remaining demographic characteristics

Stage Unawareness Metastasis Unawareness Information Desire
OR (95%CI) OR (95%CI) OR (95%CI)
Acculturation
  English proficient US born 1.00 1.00 1.00
  None English proficient immigrants 5.62(1.84–17.15)** 1.96 0.28(.08–.95)*
  Limited English proficient immigrants 3.51(1.25–9.85)* 1.70 0.59
  English proficient immigrants 1.10 0.65 0.51
Interpretation Need
  No 1.00 1.00 1.00
  Yes 4.24(5.75–7.98)*** 3.29(1.71–6.31)*** 0.36(.14–.93)*
Birth Place
  United States 1.00 1.00 1.00
  Dominican Republic 2.68 1.52 0.19(.04–.92)*
  Puerto Rico 2.18 0.86 0.73
  Mexico 7.64(1.78–32.77)** 2.75 0.81
  Ecuador 3.50(1–12.71)* 2.33 0.36
Years in US
  More than 20 years 1.00 1.00 1.00
  0–5 years 2.40 1.18 0.61
  6–20 years 1.26 0.91 0.31

Note.

*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001