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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2009 Mar;28(2):201–209. doi: 10.1037/a0013608

Table 5.

Effects of accuracy, integrating risk information, and the number and types of medication effects on willingness to undergo treatment—% willing (n)

Accuracy and summary statement Treatment outcome: Number and types of medication effects
Control (C) Mixed gain (MXG) Multiple losses (ML) Multiple gains (MG)
Accurate participants
 Control 67.5 (295) - - -
 No summary - 61.9 (223) 70.3 (185) 58.0 (257)
 With summary - 55.6 (216) 61.1 (203) 66.9 (248)
Inaccurate participants
 Control 44.8 (78) - - -
 No summary - 25.4 (138) 21.9 (192) 46.2 (65)
 With summary - 16.7 (102) 19.2 (120) 44.4 (72)