Patient Research Interest Differences by Gender and Race/Ethnicity: A North Texas Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network (NorTex) Study

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Table 1.

Descriptive Characteristics of Study Sample (n = 1348)

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation.
Participants are defined as people who signed up for the NRP registry to be contacted and recruited for future research projects.

Table 2.

Descriptive and Unadjusted Analysis of Gender and Race/Ethnicity Within Each Category

Variable	n	%	P
Cardiovascular health condition diagnosis
Yes	794	59.3
No	545	40.7
Gender			<.001
Male	246	67.2
Female	533	56.5
Race/ethnicity			<.001
White	12	61.7
Hispanic	136	45.0
African American	282	66.4
Interested in cardiovascular health research
Yes	942	70.2
No	399	29.8
Gender			.001
Male	283	77.3
Female	645	68.2
Race/ethnicity			.848
White	355	69.9
Hispanic	213	70.8
African American	305	71.6
Diabetes diagnosis
Yes	348	25.9
No	994	74.1
Gender			.005
Male	115	31.4
Female	226	23.0
Race/ethnicity			.755
White	126	24.9
Hispanic	82	27.2
African American	112	26.2
Interested in diabetes research
Yes	659	49.1
No	682	50.9
Gender			.004
Male	204	55.7
Female	443	46.8
Race/ethnicity			<.001
White	230	45.3
Hispanic	182	60.5
African American	197	46.2
Cancer diagnosis
Yes	89	6.6
No	1253	93.4
Gender			.156
Male	30	8.2
Female	57	6.0
Race/ethnicity			.146
White	41	8.1
Hispanic	22	7.3
African American	21	4.9
Interested in cancer research
Yes	515	38.4
No	826	61.6
Gender			.968
Male	140	38.3
Female	363	38.4
Race/ethnicity			<.001
White	216	42.5
Hispanic	133	44.2
African American	132	31.0
Mental health disorder diagnosis
Yes	594	44.3
No	747	55.7
Gender			<.001
Male	135	36.9
Female	450	47.6
Race/ethnicity			<.001
White	283	55.8
Hispanic	87	28.8
African American	179	42.0
Interested in mental health research
Yes	755	56.3
No	586	43.7
Gender			.021
Male	189	51.6
Female	555	58.7
Race/ethnicity			<.001
White	320	63.0
Hispanic	149	49.5
African American	232	54.5

Participants are defined as people who signed up for the NRP registry to be contacted and recruited for future research projects.

Table 3.

Simple and Multiple Logistic Regression for Research Interest

	Simple logistic regression		Multiple logistic regression
Variable	OR	95% CI	AOR	95% CI
Interested in cardiovascular disease research
Gender (male)
Female	0.63	0.48–0.83	0.79	0.58–1.08
Race/ethnicity (White)
Hispanic	1.04	0.76–0.43	1.39	0.98–1.98
African American	1.09	0.82–1.44	1.06	0.78–1.44
Diagnosed with CVD	4.26	3.32–0.46	4.21	3.16–5.62
Smoking	1.08	0.81–1.45	1.16	0.82–1.64
Age	1.03	1.02–1.04	1.01	1.00–1.02
Interested in diabetes research
Gender (male)
Female	0.70	0.55–0.89	0.76	0.57–1.02
Race/ethnicity (White)
Hispanic	1.85	1.38–2.47	1.82	1.30–2.54
African American	1.04	0.80–1.35	1.00	0.74–1.35
Diagnosed with diabetes	11.73	8.38–16.42	12.73	8.83–18.35
Smoking	0.77	0.59–1.00	0.85	0.61–1.17
Age	1.01	1.00–1.02	1.00	0.99–1.01
Interested in cancer research
Gender (male)
Female	0.97	0.78–1.29	1.02	0.78–1.33
Race/ethnicity (White)
Hispanic	1.07	0.80–1.43	1.03	0.76–1.40
African American	0.61	0.46–0.80	0.61	0.46–0.80
Diagnosed with cancer	2.29	1.48–3.54	2.27	1.43–3.60
Smoking	0.94	0.72–1.24	1.01	0.75–1.36
Age	1.00	0.99–1.01	0.99	0.98–1.00
Interested in mental health research
Gender (male)
Female	1.33	1.04–1.69	1.04	0.78–1.40
Race/ethnicity (White)
Hispanic	0.58	0.43–0.77	0.84	0.59–1.18
African American	0.70	0.54–0.91	0.83	0.61–1.13
Diagnosed with mental health illness	8.44	6.51–10.93	7.97	5.98–10.62
Smoking	2.06	1.55–2.73	1.11	0.78–1.59
Age	0.98	0.97–0.99	0.97	0.96–0.98

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; CVD, cardiovascular disease.
Participants are defined as people who signed up for the NRP registry to be contacted and recruited for future research projects.