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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Oncol Nurs Forum. 2016 Jan;43(1):57–66. doi: 10.1188/16.ONF.57-66

TABLE 3. Comparison of Opportunity Versus No Opportunity (N = 87)a and Eligible Versus Ineligible (N = 73)b Patients by Sociodemographic and Disease Characteristics.

Opportunity
(n = 18)
No Opportunity
(n = 69)
Eligible
(n = 12)
Ineligible
(n = 61)
Characteristic X SD X SD pc X SD X SD pc
Age (years) 59.6 8.9 55.2 12.5 0.17 55.4 9.5 55.3 11.5 0.98
Characteristic n n pc n n pc
Race or ethnicity 0.43 0.53
 Black or Hispanic 11 33 4 29
 Non-Hispanic White 7 36 8 32
Sex 0.69 0.08
 Female 15 61 8 54
 Male 3 8 4 7
Insuranced 0.05 1
 Private 8 50 8 42
 Medicare 7 15 3 14
 Medicaid 2 3 1 4
Education 0.09 0.26
 High school or less 13 32 9 29
 Associate or bachelor’s 3 20 2 17
 Graduate or professional 1 17 1 15
Annual household income ($) 0.28 0.66
 Less than 25,000 2 11 2 8
 25,000–49,999 6 12 4 12
 50,000–99,999 2 15 1 13
 100,000 or greater 2 19 3 17
Language 1 0.42
 English 16 66 11 59
 Bilingual 1 3 1 2
Cancer type 0.08 0.13
 Breast 8 49 5 41
 Lung 4 11 4 9
 Leukemia 5 6 3 7
 Other 1 3 4
Cancer stagee 0.001 0.00
 0–II 1 35 36
 III–IV 8 10 9 10
 Recurrent or relapsed 1 8 9
 Other 2 7 3 6
Performance statuse 0.41 1
 ECOG 0 9 21 7 23
 ECOG 1 5 1 4
 ECOG 2 1 2 3
a

One participant unsure about opportunity status removed from sample.

b

Fifteen participants declined electronic medical record review.

c

All p values are two-sided Fisher’s exact tests performed on non-missing observations.

d

One participant with no insurance was removed from this analysis.

e

This information was only collected if available for participants that consented to electronic medical record review (n = 73).

ECOG—Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

Note. Unless otherwise indicated, missing observations reflect participant non-response or that information was not present in the electronic medical record.