Table 5.
Adjusted Odds Ratios of Agreement With Statements Regarding Prospective Health Care Policies Among 1,660 Medical Students at 7 Institutions.
| Odds Ratio (95% CI)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase the Use of High-Deductible Health Plans | Allow Companies to Sell Health Insurance Across State Lines | Reduce Funding for Medicaid | Expand Medicare to 55- to 64-Year-Olds | Create a Public Insurance Option to Compete With Private Insurance Plans | Provide Undocumented Immigrants Health Insurance Through Government Programs | A Single-Payer Health Care System | |
| N in model | 1,537 | 1,537 | 1,542 | 1,538 | 1,537 | 1,539 | 1,538 |
| Characteristic | |||||||
| Sex | |||||||
| Male (Reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Female | 0.63 (0.45, 0.89)b | 0.62 (0.50, 0.77)c | 1.08 (0.52, 2.24) | 1.03 (0.83, 1.28) | 0.76 (0.57, 1.02) | 1.22 (0.91, 1.64) | 0.80 (0.62, 1.04) |
| Year in medical school | |||||||
| Fourth (Reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Third | 0.86 (0.51, 1.44) | 0.85 (0.62, 1.16) | 0.68 (0.20, 2.33) | 1.26 (0.91, 1.73) | 0.89 (0.59, 1.36) | 0.99 (0.64, 1.54) | 0.82 (0.56, 1.20) |
| Second | 1.30 (0.81, 2.10) | 0.86 (0.63, 1.16) | 0.97 (0.35, 2.71) | 1.81 (1.32, 2.48)c | 1.07 (0.70, 1.62) | 0.91 (0.60, 1.39) | 0.88 (0.60, 1.28) |
| First | 1.20 (0.74, 1.94) | 0.79 (0.58, 1.08) | 0.91 (0.32, 2.56) | 1.97 (1.42, 2.73)c | 1.10 (0.72, 1.68) | 0.84 (0.55, 1.28) | 0.87 (0.59, 1.27) |
| PhD/Master’s/other | 1.13 (0.53, 2.40) | 0.79 (0.48, 1.31) | 0.98 (0.19, 5.11) | 1.64 (0.98, 2.72) | 1.71 (0.78, 3.72) | 1.66 (0.78, 3.54) | 0.86 (0.46, 1.60) |
| Anticipated specialty | |||||||
| Primary care (Reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Surgical specialty | 1.99 (1.31, 3.03)b | 1.62 (1.18, 2.23)b | 2.11 (0.90, 4.98) | 0.70 (0.51, 0.97)b | 0.86 (0.57, 1.30) | 0.66 (0.44, 0.98)b | 0.48 (0.33, 0.68)c |
| Obstetrics/gynecology | 2.07 (1.04, 4.11)b | 1.12 (0.71, 1.76) | 0.75 (0.09, 6.04) | 1.22 (0.77, 1.93) | 1.40 (0.71, 2.75) | 1.32 (0.62, 2.80) | 2.10 (1.08, 4.08)b |
| Non-surgical specialty | 0.91 (0.55, 1.50) | 1.21 (0.89, 1.63) | 1.35 (0.49, 3.70) | 0.94 (0.70, 1.28) | 0.85 (0.57, 1.27) | 0.66 (0.44, 0.98)b | 1.06 (0.73, 1.55) |
| Unknown | 0.95 (0.57, 1.59) | 1.09 (0.79, 1.49) | 0.76 (0.23, 2.52) | 0.65 (0.47, 0.89)b | 0.79 (0.52, 1.18) | 1.07 (0.69, 1.68) | 0.88 (0.61, 1.28) |
| Political affiliation | |||||||
| Liberal/somewhat liberal (Reference) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Moderate | 1.75 (1.12, 2.75)b | 1.72 (1.24, 2.38)b | 2.84 (1.09, 7.38)b | 0.40 (0.29, 0.57)c | 0.82 (0.54, 1.25) | 0.16 (0.11, 0.22)c | 0.20 (0.15, 0.29)c |
| Conservative/somewhat conservative | 4.73 (3.00, 7.47)c | 2.17 (1.41, 3.33)c | 10.78 (4.84, 24.02)c | 0.28 (0.18, 0.45)c | 0.17 (0.11, 0.26)c | 0.05 (0.03, 0.09)c | 0.05 (0.03, 0.09)c |
a
Logistic regression models were run for agreement with each statement to estimate associations adjusted for the following factors: age (not reported), sex, medical school class, race/ethnicity (not reported), intended specialty, and political ideology.
b
P < .05.
c
P <. 001.