Indirect effects of contextual factors on patients’ consultations with healthcare professionals about health information found online

Table 1 Effects of predisposing factors with respect to consultation with healthcare professionals and the outcome measurement of contextual factors: results from the indirect effect model in Fig. 3

Predisposing factors	Consultation with healthcare professionals				Outcome measurement of contextual factors
Predisposing factors	Estimate	S.E.	Est./S.E.	P-value	Estimate	S.E.	Est./S.E.	P-value
Cancer history	0.039	0.025	1.575	0.115	0.067	0.023	2.888	0.004
Age	−0.011	0.027	−0.413	0.680	0.009	0.028	0.309	0.757
Education	0.103	0.028	3.661	0.000	−0.098	0.032	−3.065	0.002
Gender	−0.030	0.025	−1.182	0.237	0.007	0.022	0.330	0.742
Marital status	0.025	0.028	0.910	0.363	−0.026	0.029	−0.907	0.365
Insurance	0.014	0.026	0.5510	0.581	0.054	0.030	1.808	0.071
Employment	−0.031	0.026	−1.175	0.240	−0.037	0.024	−1.576	0.115
Household income	0.066	0.034	1.963	0.050	−0.068	0.047	−1.433	0.152
Race/Ethnicity	0.023	0.025	0.895	0.371	−0.049	0.025	−1.955	0.051
U.S.-Born	0.006	0.026	0.227	0.821	0.073	0.030	2.430	0.015

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