Table 4.
Provider‐level | All participants (n = 2052) |
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Quality of communication (mean ± SD) Range: 0‐100 |
66.4 ± 15.5 |
Trust in provider (mean ± SD) Range: 0‐100 |
75.6 ± 14.9 |
Health care system level | |
Access and use of care | |
No difficulty getting medical care when needed, n (%) | 1673 (81.7) |
# of visits with PCP over the past 6 mo (mean ± SD) | 2.6 ± 2.9 |
# of minutes spent at PCP office (mean ± SD) | 82.5 ± 56.9 |
Perceived discrimination in health care, n (%) agreed | |
Doctors treat African Americans and whites differently | 774 (38.7) |
Racial discrimination in a doctor's office is common | 614 (30.6) |
African Americans and whites do not receive the same kind of care in hospitals | 1004 (49.9) |
African Americans cannot get the care they want as equally as white people can | 952 (47.0) |
Abbreviations: PCP, primary care provider; SD, standard deviation.