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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2020 Oct 6;104(5):1049–1058. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.10.002

Table C.

Descriptive statistics of disaggregated Southeast Asian immigrant subgroups (n=307)

Southeast Asian (n=307)
Filipino (n=79) Vietnamese (n=63) Cambodian (n=48) Indonesian (n=46) Burmese (n=42) Thai (n=29)
Age, mean ± SD 45.3 ± 15.6 49.4 ± 17.1 51.9 ± 12.9 39.7 ± 11.6 40.7 ± 13.9 51.8 ± 15.3
Gender (Female)
 Female 49 (62.0) 34 (54.0) 29 (60.4) 24 (52.2) 16 (38.1) 22 (75.9)
 Male 30 (38.0) 29 (46.0) 19 (39.6) 22 (47.8) 26 (61.9) 7 (24.1)
Education completed
 Less than high school 1 (1.3) 26 (43.3) 29 (67.4) 1 (2.2) 2 (4.8) 2 (6.9)
 High school/some college 13 (16.7) 26 (43.3) 11 (25.6) 21 (45.7) 8 (19.0) 12 (41.4)
 College graduate 64 (82.1) 8 (13.3) 3 (7.0) 24 (52.2) 32 (76.2) 15 (51.7)
Years in the U.S., mean ± SD 9.7 ± 7.1 22.6 ± 8.9 29.3 ± 5.4 11.9 ± 10.2 11.4 ± 6.1 21.7 ± 11.8
Insurance
 Public 23 (29.1) 39 (63.9) 32 (68.1) 20 (43.5) 19 (47.5) 5 (17.2)
 Private 42 (53.2) 17 (27.9) 12 (25.5) 15 (32.6) 19 (47.5) 13 (44.8)
 No insurance 14 (17.7) 5 (8.2) 3 (6.4) 11 (23.9) 2 (5.0) 11 (37.9)
Annual Household Income
 <$25,000 10 (12.7) 27 (42.9) 21 (43.8) 19 (41.3) 7 (16.7) 7 (24.1)
 $25,000–$55,000 21 (26.6) 14 (22.2) 13 (27.1) 11 (23.9) 5 (11.9) 9 (31.0)
 >$55,000 27 (34.2) 12 (19.0) 6 (12.5) 9 (19.6) 11 (26.2) 8 (27.6)
 Don’t know/Refused 21 (26.6) 10 (15.9) 8 (16.7) 7 (15.2) 19 (45.2) 5 (17.2)
English proficiency
 Very well 37 (48.1) 10 (16.1) 9 (18.8) 8 (17.4) 15 (36.6) 3 (10.3)
 Less than very well 40 (51.9) 52 (83.9) 39 (81.3) 38 (82.6) 26 (63.4) 26 (89.7)
Do you have a health care provider who speaks a language in which you can comfortably communicate? (Patient-provider language concordance)
 Yes 69 (87.3) 46 (73.0) 20 (41.7) 27 (58.7) 42 (100.0) 23 (79.3)
 No 10 (12.7) 17 (27.0) 28 (58.3) 19 (41.3) 0 (0.0) 6 (20.7)
I feel that my doctor understands my background and values (Cultural understanding)
 Strongly Agree 48 (63.2) 29 (52.7) 3 (6.8) 16 (39.0) 20 (48.8) 11 (44.0)
 Somewhat agree 21 (27.6) 18 (32.7) 21 (47.7) 18 (43.9) 21 (51.2) 11 (44.0)
 Somewhat disagree 5 (6.6) 6 (10.9) 19 (43.2) 6 (14.6) 0 (0.0) 3 (12.0)
 Strongly disagree 2 (2.6) 2 (3.6) 1 (2.3) 1 (2.4) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
I often feel as if my doctor looks down on me and the way I live my life (Perceived bias)
 Strongly Agree 4 (5.6) 1 (2.1) 0 (0.0) 4 (10.0) 1 (2.5) 0 (0.0)
 Somewhat agree 6 (8.3) 3 (6.3) 10 (24.4) 4 (10.0) 3 (7.5) 3 (12.0)
 Somewhat disagree 12 (16.7) 12 (25.0) 23 (56.1) 9 (22.5) 2 (5.0) 7 (28.0)
 Strongly disagree 50 (69.4) 32 (66.7) 8 (19.5) 23 (57.5) 34 (85.0) 15 (60.0)
During your visit, how much of what the doctor said did you understand? (Comprehension of provider communication)
 Everything 45 (57.0) 38 (60.3) 7 (14.6) 20 (43.5) 29 (69.0) 9 (31.0)
 Most 27 (34.2) 13 (20.6) 14 (29.2) 16 (34.8) 11 (26.2) 12 (41.4)
 Some 4 (5.1) 5 (7.9) 8 (16.7) 7 (15.2) 2 (4.8) 2 (6.9)
 Only a little 3 (3.8) 7 (11.1) 19 (39.6) 3 (6.5) 0 (0.0) 6 (20.7)