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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Educ. 2009;24(3):225–232. doi: 10.1080/08858190902924815

Table 3.

Regression Estimates

Screening Intention Model n=315 Risk Compared to Average Women n=313 Risk Compared to Average Man n=299
Variable Odds Ratio P-value 95% CI 95% CI Coefficient P-value 95% CI 95% CI Coefficient P-value 95% CI 95% CI
Age 1.12 0.03 * 1.00,1.24 0.01 0.88* -0.03,0.05 0.02 0.10 * -0.02,0.06
Age Spline term 1 0.80 0.51,1.25 -0.05 -0.25,0.15 0.00 -0.18,0.19
Non-Caucasian 0.23 0.03 0.06,0.86 0.11 0.76 -0.59,0.80 0.27 0.40 -0.37,0.91
Income 0.97 0.77 0.77,1.21 -0.01 0.84 -0.11,0.09 -0.01 0.76 -0.10,0.07
Not employed/disabled/retired Reference Reference Reference
Employed 1.43 0.39 0.64,3.19 -0.37 0.02 -0.68, -0.06 -0.29 0.05 -0.59,0.00
Retired 0.79 0.65 0.27,2.25 -0.20 0.30 -0.59,0.18 -0.25 0.19 -0.61,0.12
Married/Partnered 0.84 0.63 0.42,1.69 -0.07 0.62 -0.36,0.21 -0.09 0.54 -0.36,0.19
High School or Less Reference Reference Reference
Some College 1.12 0.74 0.58,2.18 -0.26 0.07 -0.54,0.02 -0.22 0.11 -0.50,0.05
College Graduate 0.63 0.19 0.31,1.26 -0.27 0.09 -0.59,0.04 -0.19 0.21 -0.48,0.10
Monitor Score 1.02 0.81 0.88,1.19 -0.04 0.26 -0.11,0.03 -0.04 0.21 -0.11,0.02
Answered the following incorrectly:
Men get colon cancer more often than women. 0.93 0.81 0.54,1.61 -0.02 0.85 -0.26,0.22 -0.21 0.06 -0.43,0.01
Colon cancer is a preventable disease. 0.71 0.30 0.37,1.35 -0.21 0.13 -0.49,0.07 -0.25 0.07 -0.51,0.02
Screening for colon cancer would be very painful. 2.77 0.02 1.18,6.50 0.02 0.92 -0.30,0.33 -0.05 0.76 -0.34,0.25
You would always have pain if you had colon cancer. 0.39 0.14 0.11,1.38 -0.30 0.29 -0.86,0.25 -0.18 0.46 -0.65,0.29
Your chances of getting colon cancer are greater if you have a family member who had cancer of the bowel. 0.77 0.59 0.29,2.02 0.03 0.87 -0.36,0.43 0.19 0.30 -0.17,0.56
Colon cancer is always a deadly disease. 1.61 0.35 0.59,4.36 0.19 0.32 -0.18,0.56 0.03 0.86 -0.31,0.37
Intercept 1.98 0.43 0.36,10.86 3.19 0.00 2.48,3.90 3.00 0.00 2.33,3.66
*

The p-value of the age coefficients represents the joint hypothesis test that both age coefficient terms are zero