Table 2.

Factors associated with information seeking experiences

Characteristic	ISEE indexa (β, p)	Too much efforta (β, p)	Frustrationa (β, p)	Concern with information qualitya (β, p)	Information too hard to understanda (β, p)
Age	0.02, 0.60	0.04, 0.23	−0.01, 0.85	−0.02, 0.59	0.03, 0.34
Race	−0.02, 0.48	−0.03, 0.26	−0.05, 0.09	0.05, 0.07	−0.05, 0.06
Education level attained	−0.03, 0.33	−0.01, 0.83	−0.03, 0.38	−0.01, 0.83	−0.09, 0.01**
Marital status	0.01, 0.84	0.01, 0.79	0.01, 0.78	0.004, 0.89	−0.02, 0.58
Income	−0.09, 0.01**	−0.07, 0.04*	−0.09, 0.01**	−0.08, 0.02*	−0.09, 0.01**
Time since diagnosis	−0.01, 0.66	−0.03, 0.33	−0.01, 0.80	−0.03, 0.32	−0.001, 0.98
Treatment type	0.01, 0.69	0.02, 0.50	0.001, 0.98	0.02, 0.64	0.01, 0.80
Recurrence status	0.05, 0.11	0.03, 0.34	0.04, 0.21	0.06, 0.06	0.06, 0.05
Health information seeking self-efficacy	−0.17, 0.00**	−0.19, 0.00**	−0.18, 0.00**	−0.11, 0.00**	−0.13, 0.00**

Note:

^aLower scores indicate positive information seeking experiences

^**p < 0.01

^*p < 0.05