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).
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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.
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