Table 5.

Adjusting Outcome Differences^† Found across the Three Types of State Service Programs in Bivariate Analyses for Differences in Their Participants’ Disciplines, Types of Practice Sites, and Patient Race-Ethnicity

	It is generally difficult for this practice to recruit clinicians of this discipline	It was more expensive to fill a position because of this service program	Participation in this service program will help this clinician remain longer	Participation in this service program generally yields longer retention for clinicians of this discipline
Variable	Odds Ratio	Odds Ratio	Odds Ratio	Odds Ratio
State-NHSC LRP (vs Solely-State LRP)	1.64^*	3.25^***	1.19	1.21
Forgivable Loan Program (vs Solely-State LRP)	0.59	0.00	0.52^*	0.44^*
Physician discipline	1.55^*	0.53	0.85	0.99
Behavioral health discipline	0.98	0.89	1.34	0.97
FQHC or CHC	0.62	0.38^**	0.95	0.77
“Other” office-based practice	0.50^**	0.68	0.53	0.58
Combined % Black, Hispanic and Native American patients	0.99	1.00	1.014^**	1.01
Model P value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.02
Model Nagelkerke R²	0.062	0.112	0.079	0.046

Abbreviations: LRP, Loan Repayment Program; NHSC, National Health Service Corps; FQHC, Federally Qualified Health Center; CHC, Community Health Center.
↵^†Logistic regression models within the SPSS complex samples procedure.
↵*P ≤ .05.
↵**P ≤ .01.
↵***P ≤ .001.