FIGURE 1.

Predicted rating of health system distrust before and after the 2014 media coverage of waitlists for Veterans Affairs health care, stratified by sex. Time is represented here as the number of days before or following April 23, 2014 (“Day 0”), when news of Veterans Affairs waitlists was first reported by cable news network. Solid lines are predicted ratings of health system distrust, and dashed lines are the 95% upper and lower confidence intervals, estimated from a mixed effect linear regression that included fixed effects for time (operationalized as linear splines with nodes at 90-day intervals) and race/ethnicity, and a random effect for site.