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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2017 Jun 22;123(20):3895–3903. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30848

Table 1.

Distribution (weighted %) of demographic and clinical characteristics by decision supporter network size

Decision Supporter Network Size (weighted %)

Patient-level Factors Overall
N=2502
0
N=256
1
N=460
2
N=501
3
N=1285
p-value*

Age
<45 8.2 3.3 14.9 20.9 60.9 0.001
45–54 20.4 10.7 16.9 21.9 50.6
55–64 31.3 8.5 20.3 18.2 53.0
>65 40.1 12.5 19.8 20.9 46.9

Race/acculturation
White 54.2 9.5 21.4 21.0 48.0 <0.001
Black 18.0 9.4 15.3 17.0 58.3
Latina, high acculturation 7.9 12.8 14.9 19.9 52.4
Latina, low acculturation 7.7 10.2 15.0 18.4 56.4
Asian 9.8 9.2 19.1 24.5 47.2
Other/unknown/missing 2.5 25.0 15.5 17.8 41.6

Education
High school graduate or less 29.9 10.7 18.0 18.6 52.8 0.26
Some College 29.8 8.6 18.2 20.3 52.8
College graduate or more 40.3 9.3 20.8 21.9 48.0

Insurance
None or Missing 20.2 15.7 14.1 16.8 53.4 <.0001
Medicaid, Medicare or VA 35.2 9.7 18.6 21.0 50.7
Private or Other 44.6 8.0 21.5 21.2 49.4

Partner/marital status
Not partnered/Married 38.9 15.5 15.9 19.3 49.3 <.0001
Partnered/Married 61.0 6.2 21.1 21.2 51.6

Comorbidity
0 67.8 10.4 19.8 20.6 49.2 0.24
1+ 32.2 9.6 17.1 19.6 56.7

SEER Stage
0 24.9 11.7 20.4 18.6 49.3 0.26
I 50.1 9.3 19.7 20.2 50.8
II 24.0 10.8 15.5 21.4 52.4

Surgical Treatment
Lumpectomy 64.6 10.5 20.4 19.9 49.1 0.11
Unilateral Mastectomy 17.4 9.3 14.9 19.9 55.9
Bilateral Mastectomy 18.0 8.1 17.5 21.1 53.3
*

P-values from Rao-Scott chi-square tests for association