Table 2.
Associations between Demographic Variables and the Implicit Association Test (IAT) Score
| Variable | Category | N (101 Total) |
IAT score mean |
95% CI | pa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Role in ED | Physician/APC | 38 | 0.56 | (0.45, 0.68) | 0.73 |
| Nurse/Other | 63 | 0.53 | (0.43, 0.64) | ||
| Years in practice | <6 | 26 | 0.60 | (0.48, 0.72) | 0.25 |
| 6–10 | 19 | 0.57 | (0.39, 0.74) | ||
| >10 | 48 | 0.52 | (0.39, 0.64) | ||
| Missing | 9 | ||||
| Race | White | 86 | 0.56 | (0.48, 0.64) | 0.41 |
| Other | 6 | 0.43 | (−0.25, 1.10) | ||
| Missing | 9 | ||||
| Ethnicity | Non-Hispanic | 91 | 0.55 | (0.47, 0.63) | NA |
| Hispanic | 1 | NA | NA | ||
| Missing | 9 | ||||
| Sex | Female | 70 | 0.55 | (0.46, 0.64) | 0.94 |
| Male | 22 | 0.55 | (0.36, 0.73) | ||
| Missing | 9 | ||||
| Age | <30 | 11 | 0.59 | (0.37, 0.81) | 0.04 |
| 30–49 | 58 | 0.62 | (0.52, 0.71) | ||
| ≥50 | 23 | 0.37 | (0.20, 0.55) | ||
| Missing | 9 | ||||
| Location | Rural | 15 | 0.48 | (0.32, 0.63) | 0.47 |
| Urban | 86 | 0.56 | (0.47, 0.64) | ||
| IAT Type | Adult | 51 | 0.49 | (0.39, 0.59) | 0.12 |
| Child | 50 | 0.60 | (0.49, 0.72) | ||
| % of AI children on a typical shift | 0%–5% | 35 | 0.52 | (0.37, 0.67) | 0.90 |
| 6%–10% | 22 | 0.57 | (0.39, 0.74) | ||
| 11% –25% | 23 | 0.57 | (0.40, 0.73) | ||
| More than 25% | 20 | 0.53 | (0.40, 0.66) |
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P-value for unadjusted models, similar results were obtained for models adjusted for all other demographic variables (data not shown).