Table 1.

Association between urban/rural status, sociodemographic characteristics, and health information technology use among cancer patients who participated in the Health Information National Trends Survey in 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2017 and reported a prior cancer diagnosis (n=4163). Row percentages are weighted to reflect United States population-level estimates.

Characteristic		Rural, n (%)	Urban, n (%)	P value
Sex				.68
	Male	287 (18.9)	126 (81.1)
	Female	510 (19.7)	2108 (80.3)
Age in years				.34
	18-34	27 (19.7)	107 (80.3)
	35-49	92 (18.4)	381 (81.6)
	50-64	243 (17.6)	1065 (82.4)
	65-74	219 (22.5)	894 (77.5)
	≥75	213 (19.4)	866 (80.6)
Race/ethnicity				<.001
	Hispanic	13 (10.4)	198 (89.6)
	Non-Hispanic white	678 (21.0)	2545 (79.0)
	Non-Hispanic black	27 (7.6)	253 (92.4)
	Non-Hispanic other	29 9 (16.8)	145 (83.2)
Education				<.001
	Less than high school	119 (26.1)	304 (73.9)
	High school graduate	263 (24.1)	821 (75.9)
	Some college	189 (16.3)	970 (83.7)
	College graduate	207 (14.2)	1192 (85.8)
Income				<.001
	<$20,000	195 (26.0)	601 (74.0)
	$20,000-<$35,000	152 (21.0)	537 (79.0)
	$35,000-<$50,000	109 (24.0)	419 (76.0)
	$50,000-<$75,000	117 (19.1)	485 (80.9)
	$75,000+	99 (10.2)	784 (89.8)
Email/documentation				<.001
	Yes	57 (10.4)	500 (89.6)
	No	340 (18.9)	1589 (81.2)
Made appointments				.06
	Yes	22 (13.1)	170 (86.9)
	No	55 (22.0)	247 (78.0)
Tracked health costs				.34
	Yes	16 (14.2)	116 (85.8)
	No	59 (18.8)	299 (81.2)
Completed forms				.28
	Yes	24 (15.0)	116 (85.0)
	No	53 (20.2)	255 (79.8)
Test results				.17
	Yes	24 (13.7)	160 (86.3)
	No	52 (20.1)	262 (79.9)
Survey year				.03
	2003	628 (2.1)	3354 (11.3)
	2005	618 (2.4)	2626 (11.0)
	2008	835 (2.3)	4243 (13.3)
	2011	419 (2.8)	2495 (15.8)
	2013	303 (3.1)	1981 (15.5)
	2017	345 (3.1)	2188 (17.3)