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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2013 Jul 27;93(2):188–196. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.07.001

Table 3.

Predicted Values of Clinician Communication Patterns and Global Affect Across Patient/Clinician Ethnic Dyads (adjusting for non-communication covariates)

Total
n=93
White Dyads
n=34
Latino Dyads
n=24
Mixed Dyads
n=35
Omni-
bus3
LLvs
WW4
MIXvs
WW5
LLvsM
IX6
predicted
values
se 95% CL predicted
values
se 95% CL predicted
values
se 95% CL predicted
values
se 95% CL
Communication Pattern 1
Medical Questions 12.81 1.02 12.60 13.01 11.82 1.67 10.84 11.51 17.72 2.72 17.29 18.38 11.52 1.83 11.36 12.09 + + *
Therapeutic Regimen 11.85 0.72 11.74 12.03 12.85 1.25 12.61 13.11 7.48 2.14 7.08 7.93 12.00 1.49 11.44 12.03 * ** *
Psychosocial/Lifestyle Questions 99.25 4.14 97.48 99.22 94.63 7.73 91.45 94.68 114.49 9.85 111.10 115.23 98.82 9.01 95.41 99.18
Patient education about medical condition 15.24 1.72 14.75 15.44 13.70 2.93 13.02 14.20 10.91 4.77 10.45 12.38 14.06 2.83 13.70 14.85
Patient Education about Therapeutic Regimen 38.92 2.74 38.34 39.46 41.10 4.81 40.85 42.81 15.55 5.42 15.32 17.52 46.35 4.78 45.31 47.25 ** ** ***
Psychosocial/Lifestyle Education&Counseling 24.88 2.36 24.55 25.53 26.48 3.54 25.49 26.94 23.15 8.2 21.52 24.89 20.70 4.02 20.70 22.35
Partnership & Activation Statements 185.29 10 182.91 187.16 150.85 15.3 146.58 153.07 218.57 21.1 212.74 221.66 168.62 17.2 165.08 172.36 ** *** **
Concern Statements 14.70 1.13 14.34 14.81 11.28 1.72 10.51 11.23 17.22 3.07 16.87 18.17 11.13 1.9 11.03 11.83
Optimism Statements 14.38 0.93 14.03 14.41 14.65 1.57 13.88 14.52 10.74 3.29 10.13 11.48 14.15 1.79 14.06 14.79
Emotionally Responsive Statements 9.19 0.74 9.01 9.32 7.65 1.04 7.68 8.11 10.16 2.87 9.88 11.07 7.54 1.72 7.21 7.93
Agreement Statements 75.54 93.19 42.70 75.98 ** *** * *
Positive Statements 17.81 1.33 17.40 17.94 18.53 2.35 18.02 18.96 7.81 2.99 7.07 8.28 16.81 2.4 16.68 17.64 * * *

Global Affect 2
 Positive Affect 3.98 0.08 3.96 3.99 4.20 0.11 4.18 4.22 3.38 0.20 3.33 3.41 4.09 0.15 4.07 4.13 ** *
 Negative Affect 1.55 0.04 1.54 1.56 1.59 0.08 1.58 1.62 1.41 0.09 1.39 1.42 1.54 0.12 1.52 1.57
+

p<0.1;

*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001

1. Adjusting for clinician talk, visit length, patient gender, days of functional limitations, diagnosis, clinician discipline and adjusting for nesting of patients within clinicians

2. Adjusting for patient gender, days of functional limitations, diagnosis, clinician discipline and adjusting for nesting of patients within clinicians

3. Omnibus test evaluating differences across dyad groups

4. Significant difference between Latino/Latino dyads vs. White/White dyads

5. Significant difference between Mixed dyads vs. White/White dyads

6. Significant differences between Latino/Latino dyads vs. mixed dyads