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Table 4 Adjusted associations between demographic characteristics and audience segment membership, binary logistic regression, US state legislators, 2017 (N = 475)

From: Audience segmentation to disseminate behavioral health evidence to legislators: an empirical clustering analysis

 

Budget-oriented skeptics with stigma

Action-oriented supporters

Passive supporters

Model 1

Model 2

Model 1

Model 2

Model 1

Model 2

aOR

aOR

aOR

aOR

aOR

aOR

Gender

 Female

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

 Male

1.79 (1.09, 2.94)*

1.72 (1.03, 2.87)*

0.80 (0.48, 1.35)

0.82 (0.48, 1.39)

0.71 (0.44, 1.15)

0.73 (0.45, 1.20)

Political party

 Republican

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

 Democrat

0.21 (0.14, 0.33)*

0.61 (0.30, 1.25)

1.53 (0.94, 2.48)

1.27 (0.57, 2.84)

4.17 (2.62, 6.65)*

1.56 (0.72, 3.34)

 Other

0.21 (0.05, 0.89)*

0.56 (0.12, 2.68)

2.35 (0.55, 10.10)

1.78 (0.37, 8.52)

2.69 (0.74, 9.78)

1.17 (0.28, 4.92)

Region

 West

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

 Midwest

0.71 (0.39, 1.29)

0.65 (0.35, 1.21)

1.46 (0.73, 2.90)

1.66 (0.82, 3.37)

1.11 (0.60, 2.05)

1.08 (0.57, 2.06)

 Northeast

0.56 (0.30, 1.07)

0.62 (0.32, 1.21)

1.50 (0.75, 3.01)

1.44 (0.70, 2.96)

1.18 (0.64, 2.16)

1.06 (0.57, 1.98)

 South

1.67 (0.97, 2.89)

1.59 (0.90, 2.81)

1.06 (0.57, 1.97)

1.00 (0.53, 1.89)

0.52 (0.29, 0.94)*

0.58 (0.31, 1.08)

Current health committee member

 No

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

 Yes

0.34 (0.22, 0.53)*

0.34 (0.21, 0.53)*

3.80 (2.38, 6.06)*

3.94 (2.44, 6.37)

0.91 (0.58, 1.43)

0.87 (0.55, 1.38)

Years as legislator

 ≤ 5

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

 ≥ 6

0.68 (0.45, 1.03)

0.66 (0.43, 1.02)

2.80 (1.73, 4.54)*

2.78 (1.70, 4.53)*

0.63 (0.41, 0.98)*

0.63 (0.40, 0.99)*

Social ideology

 Conservative

–

Ref.

–

Ref.

–

Ref.

 Moderate

–

0.43 (0.23, 0.79)*

–

1.64 (0.82, 3.27)

–

2.23 (1.12, 4.46)*

 Liberal

–

0.40 (0.18, 0.89)*

–

1.07 (0.44, 2.58)

–

2.94 (1.25, 6.90)*

Fiscal ideology

 Conservative

–

Ref.

–

Ref.

–

Ref.

 Moderate

–

0.68 (0.35, 1.35)

–

0.91 (0.42, 1.96)

–

1.53 (0.77, 3.06)

 Liberal

–

0.44 (0.20, 0.98)*

–

1.46 (0.63, 3.37)

–

1.41 (0.67, 2.98)

Education

 ≥ Postgraduate

–

Ref.

–

Ref.

–

Ref.

 ≤ College

–

1.53 (0.99, 2.38)

–

0.55 (0.34, 0.90)*

–

1.07 (0.68, 1.68)

  1. aOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval
  2. *p ≤ .05 Model 1 adjusted for gender, political party, region, current health committee membership, and years as legislator. Model 1 adjusted for gender, political party, region, current health committee membership, and years as legislator. Model 2 adjusted for gender, political party, region, current health committee membership, years as legislator, social ideology, fiscal ideology, and education