Table 2.

Perceived race-based discrimination domains by race/ethnicity

Perceived Race-based Discrimination	All n=1,341 n (%)	NH White n=702 (52.3%) n (%)	NH Black n=373 (27.8%) n (%)	Hispanic n=169 (12.6%) n (%)	NH Other n=97 (7.2%) n (%)
When getting health care at the VA, how often have you:
Been treated with less courtesy because of your race or color	44 (3.3)	18 (2.6)	10 (2.7)	8 (4.7)	8 (8.3)
Been treated with less respect because of your race or color	38 (2.8)	15 (2.1)	10 (2.7)	7 (4.1)	6 (6.2)
Received poorer service because of your race or color	28 (2.1)	10 (1.4)	9 (2.4)	6 (3.6)	3 (3.1)
Had a doctor/nurse acted as if you were not smart because of your race or color	34 (2.5)	7 (1.0)	15 (4.1)	8 (4.8)	4 (4.1)
Had a doctor/nurse acted as if they were afraid of you because of your race or color	12 (0.9)	2 (0.3)	8 (2.1)	1 (0.6)	1 (1.0)
Had a doctor/nurse acted as if they were better than you because of your race or color	42 (3.1)	12 (1.7)	20 (5.4)	6 (3.6)	4 (4.1)
Felt like a doctor/nurse was not listening to you because of your race or color	48 (3.6)	11 (1.6)	24 (6.4)	9 (5.3)	4 (4.1)
Number and percent of women reporting any of the above	106 (7.9)	31 (4.4)	42 (11.3)	19 (11.2)	14 (14.4)

Numbers represent sample size and column percent. Missing data between n=1 and n=4.

NH, non-Hispanic.

Women with responses of “never” or “rarely” were classified as not perceiving race-based discrimination. Women with a response of at least “sometimes”, “most of the time” or “always” were classified as having perceived discrimination.

Values in bold statistically significant at p-value <0.05. We used Fisher’s exact test.