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Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 Oct 6;20(1):7–14. doi: 10.1245/s10434-012-2582-1

TABLE 1.

Patient characteristics and associations with patient-reported outcomes (N = 1,495)

Unadjusted regression coefficients
N %a Access to care Care coordination Decision satisfaction
Age (mean, SD), years 56.9 (11.3) 0.0041 0.004** 0.001
Race
 White 681 69.5 Referent Referent Referent
 African American 398 14.5 0.055* −0.041 −0.285***
 Latina-high 203 7.6 −0.339 −0.059 −0.379***
 Latina-low 183 7.4 −0.008 −0.146** −0.783***
 Other 30 1.1 −0.095 −0.047 −0.458***
F-test/p value 2.3/0.06 2.3/0.06 45.2/0.001
Education attainment
 Less than high school 329 31.8 Referent Referent Referent
 High school graduate 270 36.2 0.047 0.100* 0.254***
 Some college or more 896 32.0 0.131*** 0.075* 0.399***
F-test/p value 12.1/0.001 4.2/0.01 35.3/0.001
Marital status
 Not married 598 41.0 Referent Referent Referent
 Married/partnered 897 59.0 0.047 0.054 0.136**
Annual family income
 US $40,000 523 30.3 Referent Referent Referent
 US $40,000–69,999 299 20.9 −0.055 0.108* 0.358***
 US $70,000? 404 30.9 −0.026 0.117** 0.505***
 Don’t know/missing 250 17.7 −0.031 0.041 0.185**
F-test/p value 0.5/NS 4.02/0.007 38.6/0.001
Number of comorbidities
 0 643 45.7 Referent Referent Referent
 1 419 29.2 0.050 0.068* 0.028/NS
 2? 425 25.1 0.042 −0.028/NS −0.161/**
F-test/p value 2.3/NS 3.08/0.05 7.7/0.005
Tumor behavior
 DCIS 300 20.1 Referent Referent Referent
 Invasive 1,195 79.9 0.002 0.020 −0.054
Cancer stage
 Stage 0 299 20.4 Referent Referent Referent
 Stage I 538 39.3 0.018 0.077 0.044
 Stage II 449 28.4 −0.120 −0.023 −0.143
 Stage III 164 10.0 −0.020 −0.014 −0.050
 Unknown/missing 37 1.9 0.049 −0.015 −0.121
F-test/p value 0.6/NS 1.2/NS 3.9/0.003
Site
 Detroit 691 43.4 Referent Referent Referent
 LA 804 56.7 −0.039 −0.073* −0.226***

NS not significant

*

p B 0.05,

**

p B 0.01,

***

p B 0.001

a

Percentages weighted to account for sampling design