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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Public Health. 2011 May 12;101(7):1297–1305. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.300061

Table 4.

Multinomial regression results modeling the number of receipt of screening tests in the recommended time interval versus none, N=5,268

Variables One (n=1,062) v.s. None (n=694) Two (n=3512) v.s. None (n=694)

Odds
Ratio
95% CI P-value Odds
Ratio
95% CI P-value
Health Care System Distrust
  Values 0.875 (.790, .970) * 0.875 (.800, .958) **
  Competence 0.955 (.864, 1.054) 0.914 (.838, .99) *
Demographics
  Age 0.993 (.985, 1.000) 0.982 (.976, .989) ***
  White (ref.) 1.000 1.000
  Black 2.291 (1.712, 3.065) *** 2.671 (2.053, 3.475) ***
  Hispanics 1.710 (1.112, 2.628) * 1.406 (.950, 2.079)
  Others 1.429 (.921, 2.218) 1.047 (.703, 1.560)
  Marital Status
    Married/cohabiting 1.303 (1.005, 1.690) * 1.835 (1.459, 2.307) ***
    Widowed/divorced/separate 0.977 (.713, 1.339) 1.122 (.849, 1.483)
    Single (ref.) 1.000 1.000
Socioeconomic Status
  Poverty (ref.= non-poor) 0.941 (.693, 1.277) 1.002 (.761, 1.320)
Employment Status
  Employed 0.945 (.743, 1.203) 1.292 (1.047, 1.595) *
  Unemployed 1.220 (.830, 1.795) 0.836 (.584, 1.197)
  Others (ref.) 1.000 1.000
Education
  Not High School Graduate (ref) 1.000 1.000
  High School Diploma 1.043 (.730, 1.490) 1.060 (.767, 1.465)
  Some college 1.136 (.769, 1.677) 1.278 (.900, 1.816)
  College 1.143 (.757, 1.725) 1.668 (1.156, 2.408) **
  Post College 1.362 (.854, 2.171) 1.994 (1.318, 3.016) **
Health Care Resources
Insured (ref.= not insured) 1.983 (1.429, 2.753) *** 4.198 (3.115, 5.657) ***
Regular source of care
  No regular health care (ref.) 1.000 1.000
  Private doctor office 1.862 (1.342, 2.583) *** 2.096 (1.586, 2.771) ***
  Public health center 1.526 (.930, 2.505) 2.127 (1.372, 3.299) ***
  Others 1.600 (.980, 2.615) 1.772 (1.150, 2.731) **
Personal Health
Self-rated Health
  Excellent Health (ref.) 1.000 1.000
  Good Health 1.236 (.969, 1.577) 0.963 (.781, 1.187)
  Fair 1.077 (.791, 1.468) 0.663 (.505, .870) **
  Poor 0.955 (.605, 1.506) 0.609 (.407, .912) *
Stress 0.989 (.951, 1.028) 0.994 (.960, 1.029)

AIC 8,511.314
Pseudo-R2 0.118
*

p< .05;

**

p< .01;

***

p< .001.