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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2016 Dec;18(6):1489–1497. doi: 10.1007/s10903-015-0285-y

Table 1.

Population Characteristics Stratified by Patient Activation Level (N=198)

Characteristic Overall Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 P-valuea
Overall Population (%) 100 18 11 33 38

Clinic (%) 0.83

A 30 31 33 33 23

B 27 34 19 23 31

C 41 34 48 42 45

PATIENT-PROVIDER RELATIONSHIP

Clinician-patient communication (modified CG-CAHPS score 0-100) 89.5 82.0 80.6 89.0 95.6 0.00a

Trust clinicians at clinic (%) 89 77 74 93 96 0.00***

DEMOGRAPHICS

Race/Ethnicity (%) 0.04

Latino – Spanish speaking 38 26 38 42 43

Latino – English speaking 30 31 52 28 23

Non-Latino White 14 23 5 6 19

Non-Latino Other 14 20 5 23 15

Primary language spoken at home (%) 0.55

English 44 51 33 41 46

Spanish 38 29 38 45 36

Other 18 20 29 14 18

Female (%) 70 73 70 77 63 0.35

Age (years) 49 49 46 50 49 0.51

Education (%) 0.01**

Less than high school 42 28 55 53 38

High school graduate/ GED 23 33 35 15 23

Some college 23 33 10 26 20

College graduate or more 11 6 0 6 19

Length of time attended clinic (%) 0.83

<6 months 4 3 0 2 5

6 months – 1 year 4 9 10 3 1

1 year – 3 years 47 54 43 46 46

3 years – 5 years 22 11 24 29 22

> 5 years 23 23 24 21 26

HEALTH

Number of comorbidities (%) 0.82

0 13 9 14 11 12

1 24 26 24 30 19

2 20 29 19 17 18

3+ 44 37 43 42 52

Diabetes (%) 41 26 33 53 42 0.05*

Hypertension (%) 48 43 43 52 51 0.76

High cholesterol (%) 47 49 38 45 51 0.72

BMI (kg/m2) 32.3 32.4 32.3 32.3 32.3 0.37

SF-12 Dimensions (mean score)

Physical Component Summary Score 42.1 40.0 42.7 41.6 43.1 0.08*

Mental Component Summary Score 42.0 39.9 41.2 44.2 41.5 0.13
*

p<0.10

**

p<0.05

***

p<0.01

a

Chi-square analysis or one-way ANOVA