Table 3. Prevalence of Job Lock, Health Insurance Coverage and Denial, and Problems Paying Medical Bills Among Full-time Employed Childhood Cancer Survivors and Siblings.
| Prevalence | Survivors (n = 394) |
Siblings (n = 128) |
P Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Weighted % (95% CI)a | No. | Weighted % (95% CI)a | ||
| Experienced job lockb | |||||
| Yes | 84 | 23.2 (18.9-28.1) | 22 | 16.9 (11.1-25.0) | .16 |
| No or do not know | 307 | 76.8 (71.9-81.1) | 105 | 83.1 (75.0-88.9) | |
| Health insurance | |||||
| Employer-sponsored | 339 | 88.0 (84.1-90.9) | 110 | 88.5 (81.9-92.9) | .50 |
| Individual | 23 | 5.3 (3.4-8.3) | 6 | 3.0 (1.2-6.9) | |
| Public | 10 | 2.3 (1.6-4.5) | 3 | 1.9 (0.5-6.1) | |
| Uninsured | 20 | 4.4 (2.7-7.1) | 9 | 6.7 (3.4-7.1) | |
| Problems paying medical bills | |||||
| Yes | 75 | 20.1 (16.1-24.7) | 15 | 12.9 (7.9-20.6) | .09 |
| No | 315 | 79.9 (75.2-83.9) | 112 | 87.1 (79.4-92.1) | |
| Prior health insurance denial | |||||
| Yes | 52 | 13.4 (10.2-17.5) | 3 | 1.8 (0.47-6.23) | <.001 |
| No or do not know | 340 | 86.6 (82.5-89.8) | 123 | 98.2 (93.7-99.5) | |
a
Survey weights incorporated with calculated percentages and P values from χ2 statistics to reflect the distribution of the full Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. Percentages may sum to less than or greater than 100% because of rounding. Column totals may sum to fewer than 394 for survivors and 128 for siblings because of missing data.
b
Job lock is a term used to describe the self-reported inability of an employee to freely quit a job with full employee benefits because of the limited portability of health insurance.