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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2019 Nov 12;28(7):3179–3188. doi: 10.1007/s00520-019-05119-y

Table 1.

Study sample demographic and role-specific factors.

Healthcare professionals (n=10) Latina breast cancer survivors (n=19)

Demographic factors

Age (years)
 <40–50 7 (70%) 4 (22%)
 51+ 3 (30%) 15 (78%)

Gender
 Female 8 (80%) 19 (100%)
 Male 2 (20%) 0 (0%)

Race/Ethnicity
 Latina 6 (60%) 19 (100%)
 Non-Latina 5 (40%) 0 (0%)

Household language
 Spanish 1 (10%) 16 (84%)
 English 6 (60%) 1 (5%)
 Spanish & English 2 (20%) 2 (11%)
 Other 1 (10%) 0 (0%)

Educational attainment
 < High School 0 (0%) 9 (50%)
 High School or more 10 (100%) 9 (50%)

Income
 <$30,000 0 (0%) 10 (63%)
 $30,000 or more 9 (100%) 6 (37%)

Marital status
 Married 5 (50%) 12 (63%)
 Not married 5 (50%) 7 (37%)

Insurance status
 Insured 10 (100%) 12 (67%)
 Uninsured 0 (0%) 6 (33%)

Role-specific factors: Patients

Years since diagnosis
 0–2 6 (34%)
 3–5 10 (56%)
 6–11 2 (10%)

Surgery type
 Lumpectomy 6 (32%)
 Mastectomy 13 (68%)

Treatment type
 Chemotherapy only 1 (5%)
 Radiation only 3 (17%)
 Hormone therapy only 5 (28%)
 Surgery only 2 (11%)
 Combination 7 (39%)

Role-specific factors: Healthcare professionals

Occupation
 Social Worker 3 (30%)
 Patient/Nurse navigator 3 (30%)
 Cancer Support Specialist 1 (10%)
 Counselor 1 (10%)
 Other 2 (20%)

Years working in breast cancer
 0–5 4 (40%)
 6–10 3 (30%)
 11+ 3 (30%)

Years working in financial aspects of breast cancer care
 0–5 5 (50%)
 6–10 3 (30%)
 11–15 2 (20%)

Proportion of Latina breast cancer patients
 ≤59% 5 (50%)
 ≥60% 5 (50%)

Proportion of uninsured Latina breast cancer patients
 ≤59% 5 (50%)
 ≥60% 5 (50%)

Proportion of under-insured Latina breast cancer patients
 ≤59% 7 (70%)
 ≥60% 3 (30%)