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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2018 Aug 10;23(7):652–660. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2018.1500660

Table 4.

Characteristics of the six classes

Class 1: resource-heavy (n = 116) Class 2: human-oriented (n = 665) Class 3: expertise-focused (n = 860) Class 4: family-dominant (n = 240) Class 5: resource-scarce (n = 431) Class 6: health professional-dominant (n = 280) χ2
Demographic variable
 Age  77.0***
  18–39 44.8 56.3 51.3 42.7 44.3 33.3
  40–59 35.3 25.6 31.9 24.7 35.7 39.8
  60 and over 19.8 18.1 16.9 32.6 20.0 26.9
 Gender
  Male 50.0 47.9 44.4 40.9 43.2 42.9  6.24
  Female 50.0 52.1 55.6 59.1 56.8 57.1
 Marital status
  Married 69.6 62.6 69.0 62.2 65.4 72.8 14.5*
  Not married 30.4 37.4 31.0 37.8 34.6 27.2
 Education
  ≥ High school 81.7 84.2 88.9 66.7 76.4 72.7  90.4***
  < High school 18.3 15.8 11.1 33.3 23.6 27.3
 Ethnicity
  Chinese 21.6 32.5 27.0 22.5 18.8 10.7  203.6***
  Asian Indian 22.4 23.8 21.0 23.8 22.3 18.2
  Korean  7.8 18.8 17.2 13.3 26.2 15.4
  Vietnamese 28.4 14.1 14.8 20.0 23.7 37.5
  Filipino 16.4  6.6 12.6 15.4  3.9 12.5
  Other  3.4  4.2  7.4  5.0  5.1  5.7
Immigration-related variable
 Nativity
  US-born  8.6 12.0 10.0 10.0  4.7  6.8  19.7**
  Foreign-born 91.4 88.0 90.0 90.0 95.3 93.2
 Time in the USA
  ≥ 10 years 62.9 53.9 62.3 51.5 51.2 73.9  52.2***
  < 10 years 37.1 46.1 37.7 48.5 48.8 26.1
 English proficiency
  Proficient 40.5 37.7 47.9 29.4 23.5 34.5  82.9***
  Limited 59.5 62.3 52.1 70.6 76.5 65.5
Health and access variable
 Chronic medical condition
  None 67.2 71.4 74.1 67.5 74.0 66.3 10.6
  One or more 32.8 28.6 25.9 32.5 26.0 33.7
 Self-rated health
  Excellent/very good/good 94.0 89.2 91.5 84.5 85.8 91.8  20.1**
  Fair/poor  6.0 10.8  8.5 15.5 14.2  8.2
 Health insurance
  Insured 84.5 86.3 97.7 79.0 79.5 90.4
  Not insured 15.5 13.7 12.3 21.0 20.5  9.5  29.1***
Unmet healthcare needs  5.2 10.4  7.2 15.8 21.0 11.2  62.7***
*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001.