Assessment of the Factors Influencing the Patient’s Comprehension of the Informed Consent to Interventional Pain Procedures

Table 3

Relationship between patients’ demographics and their objective understanding of the procedure, with the propensity to predict poor understanding.

Variables		OR	95% CI	value^a
Assigned sex at birth (female : male)		0.776	0.375–1.602	0.492
Age [23–90]		1.060	1.028–1.093	≤0.001
Degree	(C+ : ND)	0.316	0.090–1.110	0.072
	(HS : ND)	0.721	0.211–2.461	0.601
Race	(B : W)	2.915	1.294–6.564	0.010
	(O : W)	4.724	1.750–12.749	0.002
Medical profession (no : yes)		0.726	0.271–1.945	0.524

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; C+, college and higher degrees; ND, no diploma; HS, high school; B, Black; W, White; O, other races including Latino, American Indian, Asian, and multirace. ^aBinary logistic regression. ^bHosmer–Lemeshow test: chi-square 7.024 with significance 0.534. Bold values are statistically significant.