Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of all variables used in this study (n=1,784)

	Minimum	Maximum	Mean or Proportion†	Std. Deviation
Response variable
Receiving prostate cancer Screening in the past year	0.000	1.000	0.575	0.494
Explanatory variable
Distrust
Competence distrust	−2.835	4.028	0.000	1.000
Values distrust	−4.129	2.877	0.000	1.000
Demographics
Age	45.000	75.000	56.628	8.066
Race/ethnicity
White (Ref.)$	0.000	1.000	0.766	0.423
Black	0.000	1.000	0.172	0.377
Hispanic	0.000	1.000	0.031	0.172
Other races	0.000	1.000	0.032	0.175
Marital Status
Single (Ref.)	0.000	1.000	0.127	0.333
Married/Cohabiting	0.000	1.000	0.752	0.432
Widowed/divorced/separated (WDS)	0.000	1.000	0.121	0.326
SES
Poverty status
Non-poor (Ref.)	0.000	1.000	0.926	0.262
Poor	0.000	1.000	0.074	0.262
Employment status
Other statuses (Ref.)	0.000	1.000	0.307	0.461
Employed	0.000	1.000	0.646	0.478
Unemployed	0.000	1.000	0.046	0.210
Educational attainment
No high school diploma (Ref.)	0.000	1.000	0.068	0.252
High school graduate	0.000	1.000	0.290	0.454
Some college	0.000	1.000	0.185	0.388
College	0.000	1.000	0.256	0.437
Post college diploma	0.000	1.000	0.201	0.401
Health care resources
Insurance status
Uninsured (Ref.)	0.000	1.000	0.053	0.223
Insured	0.000	1.000	0.947	0.223
Regular source of care
No regular source of care (Ref.)	0.000	1.000	0.084	0.277
With regular source of care	0.000	1.000	0.916	0.277
Health Status
Self-rated Health
Excellent (Ref.)	0.000	1.000	0.306	0.461
Good	0.000	1.000	0.490	0.500
Fair	0.000	1.000	0.163	0.370
Poor	0.000	1.000	0.040	0.197

^† For dummy variables, the mean values could be interpreted as the proportion of those coded 1 in each group.

^$ Ref. indicates reference group in the logistic regression model.