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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Med. 2019 Apr-Jun;45(2):102–117. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2019.1585327

Table 2.

Unadjusted Associations Between Participant Demographics, Control Variables, and Preventive Health Services Delays

Characteristic Type of Preventive Health Screening Delay
n or
mean ± SD
Routine Check-up X2
p-value
Blood Pressure Screening X2
p-value
Cholesterol Screening X2
p-value
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Age <.0001 <.0001 <.0001
20–29 272 Referent Referent Referent
30–39 180 0.62 (0.42, 0.92) 0.70 (0.46, 1.06) 0.66 (0.41,1.06)
≥40 158 0.27 (0.17, 0.43) 0.22 (0.13, 0.39) 0.18 (0.09, 0.37)
Education 0.10 0.00 0.01
College, graduate, or professional degree 193 0.67 (0.43, 1.02) 0.48 (0.29, 0.77) 0.47 (0.27, 0.80)
Some College 226 0.98 (0.65, 1.46) 0.90 (0.58, 1.36) 0.53 (0.32, 0.88)
High School or less 181 Referent Referent Referent
Employment Status 0.15 0.04 0.01
Employed 501 0.73 (0.47, 1.12) 0.62 (0.39, 0.98) 0.49 (0.29, 0.81)
Annual Income <.0001 <.0001 <.0001
≥$40,000 182 0.41 (0.27. 0.64) 0.30 (0.18, 0.49) 0.28 (0.15, 0.50)
$20,000–39,000 186 0.90 (0.59, 1.35) 0.65 (0.42, 1.01) 0.53 (0.32, 0.88)
<$20,000 194 Referent Referent Referent
Region 0.04 0.04 0.00
North 15 0.79 (0.24, 2.68) 0.24 (0.31, 1.99) 0.29 (0.36, 2.30)
Midwest 40 2.41 (1.15, 5.08) 1.37 (0.59, 3.16) 0.00a
South 449 1.65 (1.04, 2.59) 1.62 (0.97, 2.69) 1.02 (0.60, 1.74)
West 105 Referent Referent Referent
Marital Status <.0001 <.0001 0.00
Unmarried 426 2.11 (1.43, 3.11) 2.62 (1.65, 4.17) 2.40 (1.38, 4.20)
Health Insurance Status <.0001 <.0001 <.0001
Uninsured 227 2.84 (1.93, 4.18) 3.87 (2.57, 5.82) 3.24 (2.03, 5.18)
Usual Source of Care <.0001 <.0001 <.0001
No Usual Source of Care 242 5.79 (4.00, 8.37) 5.21 (3.50, 7.78) 3.91 (2.43, 6.29)
Self-Rated Health Status 0.19 0.27 0.56
Excellent 166 0.57 (0.27, 1.21) 0.75 (0.35, 1.62) 1.17 (0.47, 2.93)
Very good 241 0.65 (0.32, 1.34) 0.55 (0.26, 1.18) 0.85 (0.35, 2.07)
Good 153 0.88 (0.42, 1.86) 0.55 (0.25, 1.22) 0.80 (0.31, 2.05)
Fair or poor 37 Referent Referent Referent
Has been diagnosed with Hypertension 118 0.77 (0.50, 1.18) 0.22 0.50 (0.31, 0.85) 0.01 0.47 (0.25, 0.89) 0.01
Has been diagnosed with Coronary Heart Disease 12 0.72 (0.21, 2.41) 0.59 1.77 (0.56, 5.67) 0.34 1.40 (0.50, 3.92) 0.53
Has been diagnosed with Any Heart Condition 22 0.44 (0.16, 1.21) 0.09 0.97 (0.37, 2.55) 0.95 0.90 (0.19, 4.15) 0.89
Depressive Symptoms (CES-D Score)* 10.87 ± 5.9 1.08 (1.05, 1.12) <.0001 1.13 (1.09, 1.17) <.0001 1.05 (1.01, 1.09) 0.01

Note. CI = Confidence Interval; SD= Standard Deviation; OR= Odds Ratio; CES-D= Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.

*

Average of 12-items on a 4-point likert scale. Higher scores indicate more depressive symptoms.

Routine check-up delay = No routine check-up in the past year; Blood pressure screening delay = No blood pressure screening in the past year; Cholesterol screening delay = No cholesterol screening in the past five years.

a

No cases of cholesterol screening delays were recorded in this region; if one case of cholesterol screening delays was detected, the OR would be 0.10 CI (.01, .79)