Table 2.

Unadjusted factors associated with cancer survivors’ disclosure of use of complementary health approaches (CHA) to follow-up care physicians (N=191)

	Total N (%)	Disclosed N (%)	Did not Disclose N (%)
Patient factors
Gender
Male	85 (44.5)	43 (50.6)	42 (49.4)
Female	106 (55.5)	48 (45.3)	58 (54.7)
Race*
White, Non-Hispanic	138 (72.3)	59 (42.7)	79 (57.3)
Other	53 (27.7)	32 (60.4)	21 (39.6)
Marital status
Other	66 (34.6)	32 (48.5)	34 (51.5)
Married/living as married	125 (65.4)	59 (47.2)	66 (52.8)
Education completed
High school or less	23 (12.0)	9 (39.1)	14 (60.9)
Some college or more	168 (88.0)	82 (48.8)	86 (51.2)
Perceived health status
Poor/Fair	27 (14.1)	15 (55.6)	12 (44.4)
Good	63 (33.0)	23 (36.5)	40 (63.5)
Very good/Excellent	98 (51.3)	51 (52.0)	47 (48.0)
Physician factors
Specialty**
Primary care or hematologist/oncologist	129 (67.5)	70 (54.3)	59 (45.7)
Other specialist	60 (31.4))	20 (33.3)	40 (66.7)
Patient-physician relationship factors
Duration of relationship
< 2 years	40 (20.9)	17 (42.5)	23 (57.5)
≥ 2 years	151 (79.1)	74 (49.0)	77 (51.0)
Number visits in past year**
≤ 3	112 (58.6)	44 (39.3)	68 (60.7)
> 3	79 (41.4)	47 (59.5)	32 (40.5)

	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)
Patient factors
Age	60.06 (12.58)	59.38 (12.7)	60.67 (12.5)
Physician communication – Total** (R: 0–10)	8.37 (1.72)	8.75 (1.41)	8.03 (1.90)
Information exchange (R: 0–10)†	8.91 (1.57)	9.14 (1.22)	8.70 (1.81)
Affective behavior (R: 0–10)	9.13 (1.69)	9.35 (1.26)	8.93 (1.99)
Knowledge of survivor (R:0–10)***	7.08 (2.50)	7.75 (2.31)	6.48 (2.53)

^†p = .05;

^*p<0.05,

^**p<.01,

^***p<.001

Note. R= Range; Total scores that do not add up to 100% are due to missing responses; 5 participants had incomplete data.