A cross-sectional study of parental awareness of and reasons for lack of health insurance among minority children, and the impact on health, access to care, and unmet needs

Table 2 Bivariate analysis of factors associated with parental unawareness of their uninsured child’s eligibility for Medicaid or CHIP

Characteristic	Unaware of child’s medicaid/CHIP eligibility^a	Aware of child’s medicaid/CHIP eligibility	P
Mean time uninsured, months	16.8	11.8	.01
Mean annual combined family
income	$23,777	$19,871	.01
Race/ethnicity			.04
Latino	57.1 %	42.9 %
African-American	40.4 %	59.6 %

^aNo other factors were significantly associated with unawareness of child’s insurance eligibility

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