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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Q. 2019 Jun 27;61(2):347–365. doi: 10.1080/00380253.2019.1625731

Table 3b:

Conditional Probabilities for 20 Responses by Latent Class Membership

No Holds Barred Banking on
treatment
Pursuing
options
Testers Consider &
Self-inform
Consider
&
Discuss
Limited
response
n=170 n=214 n=248 n=114 n=112 n=207 n=1297
7.20% 9.10% 10.50% 4.80% 4.70% 8.80% 55%
Knowledge-seeking
Search Internet 0.19 0.09 0.2 0.06 0.25* 0.08 0
Read articles 0.89* 0.46 0.68 0.12 0.85 0.2 0.32
Read books 0.9* 0.43 0.69 0 0.86 0.13 0.18
Support group 0.45* 0.07 0.12 0.02 0.16 0.01 0.01
Socio-emotional support-seeking
Pray 0.87 0.75 0.78 0.7 0.89* 0.69 0.43
Therapist 0.24* 0.02 0.09 0.03 0.07 0.06 0.03
Minister 0.34* 0.18 0.21 0.09 0.26 0.15 0.04
Talk family 0.84* 0.58 0.63 0.34 0.53 0.58 0.01
Talk others 0.79* 0.41 0.53 0.16 0.47 0.47 0.02
Treatment-seeking
OPK 0.72* 0.4 0.41 0.14 0.15 0.18 0
Consider treatment 1* 1 1 1 0.62 0.52 0.04
Talk doc 1* 1 1 1 0 0 0
Tests 1* 1 0.58 0.39 0 0 0
Treatment 0.9 1 0 0 0 0 0
ART 0.36* 0.11 0 0 0 0 0
CAM 0.29* 0.04 0.11 0 0.04 0.04 0
Non-medical solution-seeking
Consider adopt 0.91* 0.7 0.76 0.62 0.87 0.59 0.49
Consider adopt now 0.3* 0.16 0.22 0.05 0.29 0.21 0.13
Process adopting 0.08* 0.03 0.01 0.03 0.06 0 0.02
Ever adopt 0.18* 0.06 0.04 0.03 0 0.02 0.02

Note: CAM - Complementary and Alternative Medicine; OPK - Ovulation Predictor Kit; ART = Assisted Reproductive Technology Gray highlight = actions within class with probability >.40.

*

= highest across classes.