. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 22.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2017 Mar 24;100(9):1680–1687. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.03.026

Table 4.

Marginal means and post-hoc contrasts from linear mixed models testing differences in talk by age group for therapeutic regimen and medical information-giving.

Information-Giving Talk	Age Group
	Early Adolescents (ages 11–14)		Middle Adolescents (ages 15–17)		Young Adults (ages 18–20)
	Marginal Mean	SE	Marginal Mean	SE	Marginal Mean	SE

AYA Talk
Therapeutic Regimen	8.79^a,c	4.38	18.28^a	4.85	24.40^c	5.03
Medical	14.60^c	4.47	14.43^b	4.89	28.85^b,c	5.6
Caregiver Talk
Therapeutic Regimen	28.79	6.93	20.93	7.51	17.44	9.59
Medical	30.93^a,c	3.29	20.40^a	3.53	18.82^c	5.25
Provider Talk
Therapeutic Regimen	46.10^a	18.20	79.31^a	19.99	54.57	26.31
Medical	50.70	8.01	48.68	8.48	45.84	12.14

Note: SE = standard error. Variables with matching superscript (a, b, c) indicate significant differences of at least p < 0.05 according to post-hoc contrasts between the following age groups.

Early vs. middle adolescent groups.

Middle adolescent vs. young adult groups.

Early adolescent vs. young adult groups.