Table 1.
Respondent characteristics by their site’s proportion of Latino patients with diabetesa
| Across all sites | By proportion of patients at site with diabetes who are Latino
|
p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 577) N (%) | > 25 % (N = 265) N (%) | ≤25 % (N = 312) N (%) | ||
| Respondent characteristics | ||||
| Types of providers | 0.09 | |||
| Physicians | 228 (40) | 96 (36) | 132 (43) | |
| Advanced practice nurses | 120 (21) | 58 (22) | 62 (20) | |
| Physician assistants | 55 (10) | 35 (13) | 20 (7) | |
| Registered nurses | 45 (8) | 21 (8) | 24 (8) | |
| Medical assistants | 39 (7) | 17 (6) | 22 (7) | |
| Licensed practical nurses | 22 (4) | 13 (5) | 9 (3) | |
| Dietitians | 4 (1) | 0 (0) | 4 (1) | |
| Case managers | 3 (1) | 1 (0.4) | 2 (1) | |
| Certified diabetes educators | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.3) | |
| Health educators | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0) | |
| Otherb | 55 (10) | 21 (8) | 34 (11) | |
| Age (mean ± SD) [years] | 46.2 (12) | 45.3 (12) | 47.0 (12) | 0.09 |
| Male | 156 (27) | 0.10 | ||
| Race/ethnicity | 0.05 | |||
| Caucasian | 430 (76) | 185 (71) | 245 (80) | |
| Asian | 53 (9) | 29 (11) | 24 (8) | |
| Black or African American | 48 (8) | 24 (9) | 24 (8) | |
| Other | 38 (7) | 24 (9) | 14 (5) | |
| Latino ethnicity | 37 (7) | 27 (10) | 10 (3) | < 0.001 |
| Born outside of US | 123 (22) | 59 (22) | 64 (21) | 0.69 |
| Years practicing (mean ± SD) | 14.0 (11) | 12.9 (10) | 15.0 (11) | 0.01 |
| Workplace characteristics | ||||
| Site locale | ||||
| Urban | 363 (63) | 189 (71) | 174 (56) | < 0.001 |
| Rural | 155 (27) | 53 (20) | 102 (33) | < 0.001 |
| Suburban | 56 (10) | 23 (9) | 33 (11) | 0.4 |
| Wait for routine physician appointment | 0.15 | |||
| No wait | 165 (30) | 70 (28) | 95 (32) | |
| < 2 weeks | 246 (45) | 114 (46) | 132 (44) | |
| 2–4 weeks | 107 (20) | 56 (23) | 51 (17) | |
| 1–2 months | 19 (4) | 6 (2) | 13 (4) | |
| More than 2 months | 10 (2) | 2 (1) | 8 (3) | |
| Evening appointments available | 387 (68) | 202 (77) | 185 (60) | < 0.001 |
| Weekend appointments available | 229 (41) | 113 (43) | 116 (38) | 0.2 |
| Percent of diabetes patients at site who are Latino (%) | ||||
| 0 | 91 (16) | – | – | |
| ≤25 | 221 (38) | – | – | |
| 26–50 | 141 (24) | – | – | |
| 51–75 | 67 (12) | – | – | |
| 76–100 | 57 (10) | – | – | |
| Percent of Latino patients who are foreign born (mean ± SD) | 53.2 (29) | 58.9 (23) | 47.6 (33) | < 0.001 |
| Percent of Latino patients at site who are uninsured (mean ± SD) | < 0.001 | |||
| 25 % or less | 107 (20) | 17 (7) | 90 (31) | |
| 26–50 % | 110 (20) | 57 (22) | 53 (18) | |
| 51–75 % | 164 (30) | 102 (39) | 62 (22) | |
| 76–100 % | 168 (31) | 86 (33) | 82 (29) | |
a
N counts vary somewhat due to missing values. All percentages do not sum to 100 due to rounding
b
Other job titles include social worker, pharmacist, clinical services manager, director of pharmacy, medical director, medical technologist, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutritionist, and respondents with multiple titles