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. 2022 Nov 11;36(11):431–442. doi: 10.1089/apc.2022.0111

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
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.