Table 2.

Comparisons of treatment choice using multinomial logistic regression

Comparison group	Variables	B	Wald chi-square	Odds ratio	95 % confidence interval for odds ratio		p value
					Lower bound	Upper bound
Surgery vs. WW/AS	Race	−0.872	0.709	0.418	0.055	3.189	0.400
	Age	−1.315*	4.396	0.268	0.079	0.918	0.036
	Employment	−0.635	1.074	0.530	0.160	1.761	0.300
	Risk level	0.728	2.059	2.071	0.765	5.604	0.152
	Worry about prostate cancer	−0.219	0.531	0.803	0.445	1.450	0.467
	Treatment efficacy/cure	1.233†	10.193	3.431	1.609	7.313	0.001
	Surgery recommendationa	3.186†	9.006	24.198	3.020	193.887	0.003
	Treatment burden	−0.670*	4.365	0.512	0.273	0.960	0.037
	Race*Risk level	1.081	1.972	2.946	0.652	13.324	0.161
	Intercept	−1.621	0.900				0.343
Radiation vs. WW/AS	Race	−2.039*	5.775	0.130	0.025	0.687	0.017
	Age	−1.432*	5.851	0.239	0.075	0.762	0.016
	Employment	−1.581†	6.825	0.206	0.063	0.674	0.009
	Risk level	−1.184*	5.618	0.306	0.114	0.818	0.019
	Worry about prostate cancer	−0.646*	4.817	0.524	0.294	0.934	0.029
	Treatment efficacy/cure	0.716*	4.238	2.046	1.034	4.048	0.040
	Surgery recommendationa	1.380	1.513	3.975	0.441	35.853	0.219
	Treatment burden	−0.028	0.008	0.972	0.515	1.834	0.930
	Race*Risk level	2.058†	7.804	7.831	1.845	33.240	0.005
	Intercept	2.261	2.681				0.102
Radiation vs. surgery	Race	−1.166	1.912	0.311	0.060	1.628	0.167
	Age	−0.117	0.069	0.889	0.369	2.141	0.793
	Employment	−0.946	3.786	0.388	0.150	1.007	0.052
	Risk level	−1.912†	18.988	0.148	0.062	0.350	<0.001
	Worry about prostate cancer	−0.426	3.828	0.653	0.426	1.001	0.051
	Treatment efficacy/cure	−0.517	2.150	0.596	0.299	1.191	0.143
	Surgery recommendationa	−1.806†	14.491	0.164	0.065	0.416	<0.001
	Treatment burden	0.641†	7.623	1.899	1.204	2.993	0.006
	Race*Risk level	0.977	2.881	2.658	0.859	8.222	0.090
	Intercept	3.883	6.870				0.009

^*p<0.05;

^†p<0.01

^aUrologist recommended surgery