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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 Jan 15;29(2):308–317. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-0460

Table 4.

Adjusted weighted percentages of any financial sacrifice, by age group, MEPS 2016 (N=963)

18–64 years 65+ years
Adjusted % 95% CI P Adjusted % 95% CI P
Age group 0.003 0.08
 18–54 62.0 (54.2 – 69.8) -- --
 55–64 46.8 (39.9 – 53.8) -- --
 65–74 -- -- 43.0 (35.6 – 50.3)
 ≥ 75* -- -- 34.2 (28.5 – 39.9)
Sex 0.03 0.57
 Male 63.0 (53.5 – 72.5) 52.1 (42.1 – 62.2)
 Female 50.0 (43.2 – 56.8) 63.5 (58.4 – 68.6)
Race / ethnicity 0.05 0.06
 Non-Hispanic white only 51.7 (45.1 – 58.3) 36.5 (31.4 – 41.6)
 Other race/ethnicities# 63.7 (54.4 – 73.0) 47.9 (37.8 – 57.9)
Current marital status 0.11 0.44
 Married 57.3 (50.6 – 64.1) 40.3 (33.4 – 47.2)
 Not married 48.4 (39.7 – 57.1) 36.1 (29.0 – 43.1)
Education <0.001 0.30
 Less than high school graduate 79.5 (67.2 – 91.8) 30.7 (19.9 – 41.4)
 High school graduate 58.2 (48.2 – 68.3) 39.4 (31.9 – 46.9)
 Some college or more 48.6 (41.4 – 55.8) 40.2 (33.6 – 46.8)
Current family income as percent of poverty line 0.04 0.21
 Low-income ≤138% 56.9 (44.1 – 69.7) 39.8 (29.7 – 50.0)
 Middle-income 139–400% 64.3 (54.8 – 73.9) 43.8 (36.0 – 51.6)
 High-income >400% 47.3 (38.5 – 56.1) 33.1 (25.4 – 40.7)
Employment Changes <0.001 --
 Employed at or after diagnosis without extended change due to cancer 45.4 (36.0 – 54.9) -- --
 Employed at or after diagnosis and took extended change due to cancer 69.9 (60.9 – 78.8) -- --
 Not employed at or after diagnosis/missing 49.4 (40.0 – 58.7) -- --
Current health insurance for age <65§ 0.72 --
 Age <65, any private 53.7 (47.2 – 60.2) -- --
 Age <65, public only 54.5 (41.0 – 67.9) -- --
 Age <65, uninsured 62.7 (41.5 – 83.8) -- --
Current health insurance for age 65+§ -- 0.70
 Age 65+*, Medicare and private -- -- 38.9 (32.4 – 45.3)
 Age 65+*, Medicare and other public -- -- 32.4 (16.9 – 47.9)
 Age 65+*, Medicare only -- -- 39.7 (32.1 – 47.3)
Number of known MEPS priority conditions (excluding cancer) †† 0.11 0.04
 0–1 49.4 (41.9 – 57.0) 29.4 (20.4 – 38.4)
 2–8 58.5 (50.6 – 66.5) 40.1 (35.1 – 45.1)
Years since last cancer treatment 0.62 0.009
 <1 56.3 (45.5 – 67.2) 38.7 (29.4 – 48.0)
 1 to <5 53.1 (41.6 – 64.6) 51.0 (38.4 – 63.6)
 ≥5 55.9 (46.4 – 65.3) 37.4 (30.5 – 44.3)
 Never treated / missing 45.9 (32.9 – 58.9) 24.1 (14.4 – 33.9)

Abbreviations: MEPS, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Note: Any financial sacrifices were defined as having responded yes to one or more of the individual financial sacrifice measures including reduce spending on vacation or leisure activities, delay large purchases, reduce basic spending, use savings set aside for other purposes, make a change to living situation, and/or other sacrifice because of cancer. Multivariable logistic models adjusted for age group, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, education, family income, employment change due to cancer (only for 18–64 years), health insurance, number of conditions, year since last cancer treatment. Bold font indicated statistically significant at alpha=0.05.

*

Age top-coded ≥ 85 by the MEPS.

#

Other race/ethnicities include Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, Asian, other race or multiple races.

Not married includes widowed, divorced, separated, or never married.

Employment change due to cancer was not considered for cancer survivors aged 65+ years because the majority was not employed.

§

Public insurance includes Medicare, Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and/or other public hospital/physician coverage. TRICARE/CHAMPVA was treated as private coverage, as were employer-based, union-based, and other private insurance.

††

Conditions include arthritis, asthma, diabetes, emphysema, heart disease (angina, coronary heart disease, heart attack, other heart condition/disease), high cholesterol, hypertension, and stroke.

Years since last cancer treatment top-coded at ≥20 by the MEPS.