Table 5 Multivariate logistic regression model: nested effect analyses of influential factors on cancer survivors’ cancer information avoiding behavior (female, n=378)

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		0.669 ^***	0.547	0.818	0.748 ^*	0.586	0.954	0.781 ^†	0.593	1.029	0.846	0.631	1.134
Race	Non-Hispanic White (Ref.)
	Hispanic	2.337	0.735	7.432	1.738	0.474	6.370	1.627	0.442	5.986	4.047	0.759	21.566
	Black/African American	1.317	0.284	6.113	0.738	0.112	4.855	0.468	0.060	3.626	1.518	0.143	16.089
	Asian/Other	1.598	0.399	6.396	1.238	0.239	6.415	1.289	0.227	7.321	3.317	0.429	25.635
Socioeconomic Factors
Education	High school or less (Ref.)
	High school to associate				0.417	0.138	1.259	0.531	0.164	1.725	0.490	0.139	1.726
	College				0.832	0.423	1.638	0.914	0.448	1.864	0.830	0.385	1.788
	Post-graduate				0.896	0.472	1.703	1.026	0.518	2.033	0.897	0.435	1.851
Income	=<$29 999 (Ref.)
	$30 000–$49 999				1.321	0.558	3.125	1.284	0.466	3.544	1.795	0.579	5.567
	$50 000–$74 999				0.350 ^*	0.127	0.967	0.338 ^*	0.115	0.988	0.334 ^†	0.109	1.028
	>=$75 000				0.778	0.369	1.640	0.673	0.299	1.516	0.765	0.316	1.851
Debt	Less than $2000 (Ref.)
	$2000 to $4999				0.519 ^†	0.244	1.103	0.523	0.234	1.166	0.473 ^†	0.201	1.116
	$5000 to $9999				1.139	0.439	2.956	0.846	0.304	2.354	1.236	0.410	3.724
	$10 000 to $19 999				1.607	0.599	4.310	1.442	0.514	4.045	1.508	0.497	4.574
	$20 000 to $49 999				1.196	0.487	2.936	1.086	0.421	2.800	1.071	0.401	2.862
	$50 000 or more				0.741	0.288	1.907	0.757	0.271	2.112	0.723	0.236	2.213
Cancer Related Factors
Cancer Type	Other (Ref.)
	Breast Cancer							0.374	0.084	1.654	0.339	0.074	1.549
	Colon or Rectal Cancer							0.349	0.082	1.479	0.360	0.082	1.585
	Head and Neck Cancer							0.080 ^†	0.006	1.097	0.110	0.008	1.557
	Leukemia or Blood Cancer							0.143	0.008	2.501	0.164	0.009	2.918
	Lung Cancer							1.016	0.121	8.511	0.818	0.081	8.230
Period of Illness								0.902	0.706	1.151	0.883	0.673	1.158
Insurance	Private
	Medicare/Medicaid							0.897	0.354	2.273	0.636	0.210	1.926
Barriers to obtaining cancer information
	Information Access Barriers										1.083	0.725	1.617
	Information Utilization Barriers										1.438^*	1.053	1.964
	Constant	0.871			1.377			4.828			1.760
Fit Statistics
	-2LL	461.583			348.359			321.925			282.039
	NagelKerke R²	0.070			0.143			0.155			0.178

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

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Table 5 Multivariate logistic regression model: nested effect analyses of influential factors on cancer survivors’ cancer information avoiding behavior (female, n=378)

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