Table 1. Sample characteristics by ethnicity and language-preference acculturation.
Hispanic Women (N = 652) | U.S.-born White Women (N = 3,592) | Hispanic Women-English (N = 289) | Hispanic Women-Spanish (N = 363) | |||
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Weighted % | Weighted % | p-value | Weighted % | Weighted % | p-value | |
Mammography | 0.754 | 0.35 | ||||
No | 40.7 | 39.4 | 43.1 | 38.7 | ||
Yes | 59.3 | 60.6 | 56.9 | 61.3 | ||
Health Literacy * | < 0.001 | 0.001 | ||||
Below Basic | 52.8 | 10.1 | 16.8 | 82.1 | ||
Basic | 21.1 | 20.6 | 35.6 | 13.8 | ||
Intermediate/ Proficient | 26.2 | 69.4 | 47.5 | 4.2 | ||
Age | < 0.001 | 0.30 | ||||
40–49 | 50.0 | 32.7 | 53.7 | 46.6 | ||
50–64 | 32.0 | 36.6 | 31.2 | 32.8 | ||
65+ | 18.0 | 30.6 | 15.1 | 20.6 | ||
Income | < 0.001 | 0.003 | ||||
Below poverty | 35.3 | 10.9 | 25.1 | 43.6 | ||
Above poverty | 64.7 | 89.1 | 74.9 | 56.4 | ||
Medical Insurance | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||
No | 32.0 | 8.7 | 19.0 | 41.7 | ||
Yes | 68.0 | 91.3 | 81.0 | 58.3 |
* Comparison of mean health literacy scores