Table 4.
Proportion of Indicator Endorsement and Between-Class Odds Ratios Across Classes
Three-class solution (entropy = 0.81) | Overall | Class 1: Shared decision-making (35%) | Class 2: Provider-led decision-making (25%) | Class 3: Patient-driven decision-making (41%) | OR1:2 | OR1:3 | OR2:3 |
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Domain 1: Sexual health communication with health care providers | |||||||
Has provider who knows about sexual identity | 44% | 100% | 41% | 0% | Max | Max | Max |
Believes providers should know everything about sexuality to take good care of them | 58% | 62% | 74% | 44% | 0.58 | 2.07 | 3.58 |
Domain 2: Stigma and mistrust in health care | |||||||
Experienced stigma attributed to sexual orientation in health care | 38% | 50% | 35% | 31% | 1.82 | 2.20 | 1.21 |
Believes providers try to cover up when make mistakes | 52% | 43% | 57% | 56% | 0.58 | 0.61 | 1.04 |
Domain 3: Autonomy in sexual health decisions | |||||||
Believes that patients should be given choices and decide about what is best for their sexual health | 63% | 88% | 4% | 90% | 183.7 | 0.82 | 0.01 |
Believes patients should make important medical decisions about sexual health | 66% | 88% | 21% | 86% | 27.4 | 1.25 | 0.05 |
Boldface indicates probability of endorsement ≥70% or ≤30% or between-class ORs ≥5.0 or ≤0.2, considered to be good measures of homogeneity and class separation, respectively.34
OR, odds ratio.