Table 3.

Relationship of Asian American immigrant subgroup with low comprehension of provider communication

	Unadjusted (n=1,269)		Model 1 (n=1,158)		Model 2 (n=984)
	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Asian American subgroup
South Asian	Reference		Reference		Reference
East Asian	1.80 (1.10, 2.94)	0.020	1.48 (0.85, 2.56)	0.167	0.75 (0.36, 1.54)	0.431
Southeast Asian	4.69 (2.98, 7.38)	<0.001	5.80 (3.47, 9.67)	<0.001	3.39 (1.80, 6.41)	<0.001
Age, years			1.00 (0.99, 1.02)	0.918	0.99 (0.97, 1.01)	0.343
Gender
Female			1.59 (1.04, 2.45)	0.033	1.47 (0.85, 2.55)	0.164
Male			Reference		Reference
Time in US, years			1.00 (0.98, 1.02)	0.697	1.02 (0.99, 1.05)	0.293
Education
Less than high school			9.30 (5.07, 17.05)	<0.001	4.04 (1.73, 9.41)	0.006
High school/Some college			3.32 (1.80, 6.13)	<0.001	1.97 (0.88, 4.41)	0.100
College graduate			Reference		Reference
English spoken fluency
Very well					Reference
Well					2.25 (0.79, 6.43)	0.132
Not well/Not at all					4.24 (1.38, 13.02)	0.012
Health insurance
Private					Reference
Public					2.77 (1.19, 6.44)	0.018
Uninsured					1.38 (0.48, 3.93)	0.548
Patient-provider language concordance
Yes					Reference
No					5.30 (3.05, 9.18)	<0.001
Cultural understanding
Agree (Strongly or somewhat)					Reference
Disagree (Strongly or somewhat)					6.31 (3.17, 12.54)	<0.001
Physician bias
Agree (Strongly or somewhat)					1.54 (0.81, 2.93)	0.192
Disagree (Strongly or somewhat)					Reference