Table 2.
Regular Source of Care and Use of Services, by Age, Ethnicity, Gender, SES, Insurance Status, and Treatment Intensity, N (%).
| Regular source of care (N =
207) |
Utilization (N = 215) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No RSC cancer care n = 74 (35.7) |
No RSC noncancer care n =87 (42.0) |
No RSC both n = 46 (22.2) |
No primary care visit n = 88 (40.9) |
No visit to cancer specialist n = 92 (42.8) |
Made emergency department visit n = 35 (16.3) |
|
| Age | ||||||
| <21 | 30 (22)* | 37 (26)* | 13 (9)* | 44 (32)* | 46 (33)* | 22 (16) |
| 21-25 | 44 (47)* | 50 (53)* | 33 (35)* | 41 (44)* | 43 (46)* | 13 (14) |
| Ethnicity | ||||||
| Latino | 53 (41)* | 52 (40) | 31 (24) | 56 (43)* | 55 (43) | 20 (16) |
| Other | 21 (20)* | 35 (34) | 15 (14) | 29 (28)* | 34 (33) | 15 (15) |
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | 38 (33) | 40 (34) | 23 (20) | 35 (30)* | 45 (39) | 18 (15) |
| Male | 36 (31) | 47 (41) | 23 (20) | 50 (44)* | 44 (38) | 17 (15) |
| SES | ||||||
| High/Middle | 36 (30) | 44 (37) | 25 (21) | 35 (29)* | 45 (38) | 22 (19) |
| Low | 38 (34) | 43 (38) | 21 (18) | 50 (44)* | 44 (39) | 13 (12) |
| Insurance status | ||||||
| Private/Other | 20 (23)* | 23 (26)* | 11 (12)* | 18 (20)* | 26 (29)* | 18 (20) |
| Public | 16 (21)* | 28 (37)* | 8 (11)* | 32 (43)* | 22 (30)* | 12 (16) |
| Uninsured or unknown | 38 (56)* | 36 (52)* | 27 (39)* | 35 (52)* | 41 (60)* | 5 (7)* |
| Treatment intensity | ||||||
| 1 | 8 (38) | 10 (46) | 6 (27) | 6 (27) | 13 (59)* | 4 (18) |
| 2 | 23 (30) | 27 (36) | 16 (21) | 23 (31) | 38 (51)* | 13 (17) |
| 3 | 34 (33) | 33 (31) | 17 (16) | 41 (39) | 30 (29)* | 13 (13) |
| 4 | 8 (27) | 16 (53) | 6 (20) | 14 (47) | 8 (27)* | 5 (17%) |
Note. SES = socioeconomic status; RSC = regular source of care.
*
Statistical significance P ≤ .05.