The Correlates of Health Care Providers Experiences toward Cost
Communications with Sociodemographics
Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient (Table 3) and multiple regressions
(Table 4) were used to address the correlations. First, to identify the
correlations between sample’s sociodemographic and health care
providers’ experiences toward cost discussions, the following variables
(age, years of experiences, marital status, major specialty, meeting
patient/week) are selected and after ensuring that there is no problems
with multicollinearity, none of these correlations was very high (above
0.70).
“Insert Table 3 Here”
Multiple regression analysis was used to test if the predictor variables
significantly predicted health care provider’s experiences in discussing
financial issues. The results of the regression indicated that the model
explained 43.3% of the variance and that the model was a significant
predictor of health care provider’s experiences, F (5,116) =
0.433, p < 0.001. It was found that years of
experiences significantly predicted health care provider’s experiences
(β = 0.214, p<0.05), as did meeting patient/week and major
specialty (β = 0.182, p<.01); β = 0.158, p<.01)
respectively, while age and marital status did not.
“Insert Table 4 Here”