Table 1.

Demographics, Health Care Access, and Willingness to Participate in Biospecimen Research

	Unwilling		Willing
	N	%	N	%	P value
Age					0.02
18–40 years old	40	65.6	21	34.4
41–50 years old	29	67.4	14	32.6
51–60 years old	16	43.2	21	56.8
>60 years old	136	50.0	136	50.0
Gender					0.36
Male	77	50.7	75	49.3
Female	145	55.3	117	44.7
Born in the U.S.					0.88
No	211	53.0	187	47.0
Yes	5	55.6	4	44.4
Years lived in U.S.					0.14
1–10 years	107	55.2	87	44.8
11–20 years	58	46.8	66	53.2
>20 years	50	60.2	33	39.8
Current marital status					0.76
Married	165	54.3	139	45.7
Never married	14	58.3	10	41.7
Other	40	50.6	39	49.4
Level of education					0.09
Less than high school	109	59.9	73	40.1
High school	43	51.8	40	48.2
University/graduate	64	47.8	70	52.2
Employment					0.54
Employed	39	54.2	33	45.8
Unemployed	16	44.4	20	55.6
Other	158	54.1	134	45.9
Annual household income					0.35
<$10,000	122	51.3	116	48.7
$10,000–20,000	39	59.1	27	40.9
$20,001–30,000	13	61.9	8	38.1
>$30,000	17	65.4	9	34.6
Health insurance					0.19
No	80	57.1	60	42.9
Yes	128	50.2	127	49.8
Have regular physician					0.07
No	73	59.8	49	40.2
Yes	131	49.8	132	50.1
Speak English well					0.13
Not at all/not well	192	52.2	176	47.8
Well/Very well	23	65.7	12	34.3