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Katie N Rogers1, Perla L Vaca Lopez1, Amy Chevrier1
1Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Abstract:
We explored how sociodemographics and health insurance literacy (HIL) are associated with financial toxicity (FT) among adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients using linear regression. Participants (N = 86; ages: 18-39) diagnosed with cancer in the past year completed baseline surveys of an intervention trial assessing HIL (range: 4-36, lower scores = worse literacy) and the COmprehensive Score for financial Toxicity (COST; range: 0-44, lower scores = higher toxicity). Policyholders had higher FT (β = -5.24, p = 0.02). Among AYAs aged 26-39, each one-point HIL increase correlated with a 0.55 increase in COST score (p = 0.05). Improving HIL could address FT among AYAs aged 26-39, suggesting a potential target for intervention.
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