Table 1.
Demographics of study sample and those who did and did not receive a treatment recommendation.
| Characteristic | Overall N = 440 (%) |
Treatment recommendation N = 366 (%) |
No treatment recommendation N = 74 (%) |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, mean (SD) | 56.9 (11.3) | 57.0 (11.3) | 56.5 (11.5) | 0.76 |
| Breast cancer stage I (vs. Stage II) | 265 (60.2) | 218 (59.6) | 47 (63.5) | 0.53 |
| Education | 0.89 | |||
| ≥College graduate | 279 (63.4) | 231 (63.1) | 48 (64.9) | |
| Some college | 106 (24.1) | 88 (24) | 18 (24.3) | |
| High school or less | 55 (12.5) | 47 (12.8) | 8 (10.8) | |
| Married/committed relationship (vs. single/divorced/widowed) | 297 (67.8) | 249 (68.4) | 48 (64.9) | 0.55 |
| Race white (vs. other) | 362 (83.2) | 313 (86.5) | 59 (80.8) | 0.21 |
| Hispanic (vs. non Hispanic) | 13 (3.0) | 11 (3.0) | 2 (2.8) | 0.91 |
| Income | 0.93 | |||
| ≤30,000 | 59 (14.3) | 48 (14.1) | 11 (15.1) | |
| 30,001–60,000 | 87 (21.1) | 70 (20.6) | 17 (23.3) | |
| 60,001–100,000 | 107 (24.3) | 88 (25.9) | 19 (26) | |
| >100,000 | 160 (38.7) | 134 (39.4) | 26 (35.6) | |
| SURE scale, mean (SD) | 3.56 (1.0) | 3.57 (1.04) | 3.51 (1.08) | 0.66 |