Table 3.

Patient and clinical characteristics associated with the amount of information patients desire about topics related to their care.

	General information			Cost information		Prognosis information
	Diagnosis characteristics	Treatments′ side effects	Treatments′ effectiveness	Costs to society	Cost to me	Chances of cure	Life expectancy
Age	–0.0043	–0.040	0.017	–0.10	–0.15*	–0.060	0.017
Gender (ref: female)	0.12	0.13	0.15	0.17	0.13	0.064	0.14
Marital status (ref: single)	0.47*	0.30	0.42*	0.18	0.37*	0.16	–0.11
Income	0.25**	0.22*	0.21*	0.12	0.13	0.11	0.021
Treatment type (ref: surgery only)
Chemotherapy	–0.30	–0.14	–0.038	–0.15	–0.066	0.021	0.084
Radiation	0.00	0.097	0.29	–0.21	–0.17	0.022	0.38
>1 treatment	0.079	0.16	0.29	–0.18	–0.38	0.00	0.42
Time since diagnosis	0.0034	0.040	0.14*	0.18	0.13	0.012	0.051

^*p < 0.05.

^**p < 0.01 (ref = reference category).