Table 2.
Chi-square analyses, by race and level of trust of cancer information from doctor.
| Race/Ethnicity | Level of Trust | |||||||
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| White(N = 838) Mean/% | Black(N = 167) Mean/% | Hispanic (N = 198) Mean/% | p-value | Not at all/ A little (N = 80)Mean/% | Some (N = 64) Mean/% | A lot(N = 859) Mean/% | p-value | |
| Dependent variables | ||||||||
| Have heard of HPV | 50.7 | 43.7 | 48.5 | 0.246 | 41.3 | 45.5 | 51.3 | 0.080 |
| Heard of HPV vaccine | 50.1 | 35.3 | 34.3 | <0.001 | 30.0 | 42.8 | 47.7 | 0.006 |
| Independent variables | ||||||||
| Trust information from doctor | ||||||||
| A lot | 71.0 | 74.3 | 58.6 | <0.001 | – | – | 100.0 | |
| Some | 22.2 | 16.8 | 25.3 | 0.001 | – | 100.0 | – | |
| A little/Not at all | 5.0 | 7.2 | 13.1 | <0.001 | 100.0 | – | – | |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | – | – | 100.0 | 52.5 | 70.5 | 71.0 | 0.003 | |
| Non-Hispanic Black | – | 100.0 | – | 15.0 | 10.6 | 14.8 | 0.219 | |
| Hispanic | 100.0 | – | – | 32.5 | 18.9 | 14.2 | <0.001 | |
| Control variables | ||||||||
| Knows HPV is an STDa | 66.6 | 45.2 | 76.0 | <0.001 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 32.7 | 0.937 |
| Married | 64.3 | 43.7 | 62.1 | <0.001 | 47.5 | 61.4 | 62.3 | 0.034 |
| Employment Status | ||||||||
| Employed | 49.9 | 49.1 | 59.6 | 0.040 | 45.0 | 54.2 | 51.1 | 0.341 |
| Not Employed | 10.7 | 26.3 | 17.2 | <0.001 | 26.3 | 15.5 | 12.3 | 0.002 |
| Retired | 37.4 | 19.2 | 19.7 | <0.001 | 22.5 | 28.0 | 34.0 | 0.033 |
| Insured | 93.6 | 83.8 | 84.8 | <0.001 | 75.0 | 92.4 | 91.7 | <0.001 |
| Have a regular provider | 76.1 | 66.5 | 55.6 | <0.001 | 42.5 | 62.9 | 76.7 | <0.001 |
| Education | ||||||||
| High School Graduate or less | 20.8 | 31.7 | 36.9 | <0.001 | 43.8 | 25.4 | 23.1 | <0.001 |
| Some college/post high school training | 30.2 | 34.1 | 35.9 | 0.232 | 31.3 | 33.7 | 31.1 | 0.722 |
| College/post graduate | 48.3 | 34.1 | 25.3 | <0.001 | 21.3 | 40.2 | 45.3 | <0.001 |
| Income | ||||||||
| $0–34,999 | 24.5 | 45.5 | 42.9 | <0.001 | 52.5 | 33.3 | 27.5 | <0.001 |
| $35,000–$74,999 | 31.6 | 34.7 | 32.8 | 0.722 | 23.8 | 26.5 | 34.8 | 0.010 |
| $75,000–$99,999 | 14.4 | 8.4 | 10.6 | 0.058 | 8.8 | 12.5 | 13.5 | 0.465 |
| $100,000 or more | 29.5 | 11.4 | 13.6 | <0.001 | 10.0 | 26.9 | 23.6 | 0.007 |
| Age 9–27 in home | 30.7 | 49.1 | 53.0 | <0.001 | 46.3 | 35.2 | 36.6 | 0.186 |
| Age | 54.0 | 58.6 | 51.6 | <0.001 | 55.0 | 56.8 | 57.0 | 0.549 |
| (SD = 14.04) | (SD = 5.30) | (SD = 15.65) | (SD = 16.32) | (SD = 14.95) | (SD = 15.49) | |||
NOTES: bold denotes statistical significance at p = 0.05 using chi-squared tests for dichotomous variables and ANOVA for continuous variables. Tests are between differences between racial/ethnic groups.
a
Indicates lower number of participants for the item (n = 594) due to a skip pattern within the questionnaire.