Table 6:

Associations (unadjusted and adjusted) between RBEC scores, sociodemographic variables and illness understanding scores (N=275)

		IU Score (single predictor)			IU Score (multiple predictors*)
Variable		β	SE	p	β	SE	p
RBEC Score		−0.20	0.07	0.00	−0.22	0.08	0.01
Variable	Group	LS Mean	SE	p	LS Mean	SE	p
Age	Under 55	1.45	0.14	0.37	1.35	0.19	0.49
	55 to 64	1.70	0.11		1.50	0.17
	65+	1.56	0.13		1.32	0.20
Gender	Male	1.58	0.13	0.93	1.36	0.19	0.71
	Female	1.59	0.09		1.42	0.15
Race	Black	1.42	0.15	0.20	1.36	0.22	0.83
	White	1.64	0.08		1.41	0.16
Ethnicity	Latino	1.18	0.20	0.03	1.26	0.25	0.26
	non-Latino	1.65	0.08		1.52	0.13
Insured	Yes	1.67	0.08	0.02	1.58	0.16	0.07
	No	1.25	0.16		1.19	0.22
Education	Beyond HS	1.74	0.09	0.01	1.51	0.18	0.14
	Not Beyond HS	1.34	0.12		1.27	0.17
Marital Status	Married	1.65	0.09	0.30	1.47	0.18	0.28
	Not Married	1.50	0.11		1.31	0.17
Religion	Catholic	1.45	0.11	0.04	1.23	0.17	0.09
	Protestant	1.73	0.15		1.46	0.20
	Baptist	1.61	0.17		1.53	0.23
	Other-Christian	1.06	0.28		0.79	0.31
	Jewish	2.04	0.24		1.52	0.29
	Other	2.33	0.39		2.06	0.41
	None	1.50	0.33		1.12	0.36
Region*	Northeast	1.63	0.09	0.43	1.17	0.22	0.05
	South/West	1.51	0.12		1.61	0.16

Abbreviations: RBEC – Religious beliefs in end-of-life medical care; IU – Illness understanding; HS – high school;

^*Model includes all covariates simultaneously.