Table 3.
Communication Content According to Level of Communication of Abnormal Diagnostic Exams and Confidence in Use of Statistics
| Total N |
N and % who are Confident in use of Statistics |
N and % who are Frequent Communicator s of Abnormal Diagnostic Exams* |
N and % who are Frequent Communicators of Abnormal Diagnostic Exams* |
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| Among those Not Confident in use of Statistics |
Among those Confident in use of Statistics |
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| N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | ||
| TOTAL | 243 | 191 | (78.6) | 187 | (77.0) | 38 | (73.1) | 149 | (78.0) |
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When Discussing Positive mammography exams with a patient would you use: |
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| Numbers and statistics such as “your chances of having cancer is less than 2%” |
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| Never | 50 | 38 | (76.0) | 30 | (60.0) | 8 | (66.7) | 22 | (57.9) |
| Rarely/Sometimes | 118 | 88 | (74.6) | 96 | (81.4) | 23 | (76.7) | 73 | (83.0) |
| Often/Always | 67 | 60 | (89.6) | 59 | (88.1) | 6 | (85.7) | 53 | (88.3) |
| General statements such as “your chance of having cancer is extremely low”, N (%) |
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| Never | 10 | 9 | (90.0) | 2 | (20.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 2 | (22.2) |
| Rarely/Sometimes | 91 | 74 | (81.3) | 72 | (79.1) | 12 | (70.6) | 60 | (81.1) |
| Often/Always | 138 | 105 | (76.1) | 112 | (81.2) | 26 | (78.8) | 86 | (81.9) |
Missing Data: Using numbers and statistics, such as “your chance of having cancer is less than 2%” is missing 8 responses. Using general statements such as, “your chance of having cancer is extremely low” is missing 4 responses.
Bold indicates a statistically significant difference(p-value<0.05) between the responses in a given category and all other categories