Table 4 Multivariable logistic regression model: influential factors on cancer survivors’ cancer information avoiding behavior (male, n=138)

From: Class, race and ethnicity and information avoidance among cancer survivors

		Model I			Model II			Model III			Model IV
			95% CI			95% CI			95% CI			95% CI
Factors	Variables	OR	Lower	Upper	OR	Lower	Upper	OR	Lower	Upper	OR	Lower	Upper
Sociodemographic Factors
Age		0.561 ^***	0.399	0.787	0.519 ^**	0.333	0.808	0.443 ^**	0.244	0.801	0.418 ^*	0.181	0.969
Race	Non-Hispanic White (Ref.)
	Other	2.271	0.809	6.375	1.424	0.302	6.719	1.017	0.147	7.047	0.509	0.026	9.889
Socioeconomic Factors
Education	High school or less (Ref.)
	High school to associate				0.873	0.197	3.868	0.607	0.112	3.288	0.138	0.011	1.746
	College				0.233 ^†	0.046	1.174	0.121 ^*	0.018	0.817	0.064 ^*	0.005	0.758
	Post-graduate				0.850	0.243	2.974	0.639	0.157	2.599	0.348	0.056	2.152
Income	=<$29 999 (Ref.)
	$30 000–$49 999				2.292	0.452	11.625	1.400	0.134	14.599	0.287	0.007	11.437
	$50 000–$74 999				1.795	0.203	15.893	0.399	0.024	6.684	0.398	0.015	10.779
	>=$75 000				0.487	0.113	2.097	0.542	0.105	2.805	0.443	0.049	4.006
Debt	Less than $2000 (Ref.)
	$2000 to $4999				0.644	0.172	2.409	0.835	0.181	3.847	1.187	0.201	7.016
	$5000 to $9999				1.998	0.419	9.527	2.412	0.340	17.106	2.084	0.151	28.836
	$10 000 to $19 999				0.725	0.136	3.865	0.729	0.100	5.336	0.740	0.059	9.205
	$20 000 to $49 999				1.146	0.130	10.140	0.851	0.084	8.620	2.782	0.091	85.331
	$50 000 or more				1.068	0.189	6.018	1.055	0.166	6.702	2.447	0.266	22.480
Cancer Related Factors
Cancer Type	Other (Ref.)
	Colon or Rectal Cancer							3.917	0.323	47.562	10.133	0.412	249.212
	Head and Neck Cancer							6.414	0.275	149.685	22.598	0.324	1576.903
	Leukemia or Blood Cancer						3.199	0.186	54.983	4.595	0.107	198.081
	Lung Cancer							7.395	0.268	204.399	100.868 ^*	1.221	8335.396
	Prostate Cancer							25.238 ^*	1.218	522.966	19.718	0.388	1002.290
Period of Illness								1.361	0.792	2.337	1.424	0.727	2.791
Insurance	Private (ref.)
	Medicare/Medicaid							1.678	0.196	14.370	1.982	0.100	39.123
Barriers to obtaining cancer information
	Information Access Barriers										0.780	0.254	2.397
	Information Utilization Barriers										5.515 ^***	2.077	14.643
	Constant	1.950			4.429			0.860			0.412
Fit Statistics
	-2LL	147.926			112.710			92.374			67.275
	NagelKerke R²	0.133			0.248			0.354			0.519

^†P<0.1, *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001.

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Table 4 Multivariable logistic regression model: influential factors on cancer survivors’ cancer information avoiding behavior (male, n=138)

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