Table 2.
Percentage Agreeing With Decisional Balance Scale Items (Somewhat or Strongly Agree) by Ethnicity
| African American |
Chinese | Filipina | Latina | White | Total (N = 1,463) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 497) | (n = 199) | (n = 167) | (n = 300) | (n = 300) | |||
| Variable | % | % | % | % | % | n | % |
| Mammography Cons Scale | |||||||
| You are too busy to have a mammogram | 9.1 | 28.1 | 24.0 | 30.7 | 9.7 | 262 | 17.9 |
| You will only get a mammogram if you have a breast problema | 10.3 | 28.1 | 9.0 | 25.0 | 7.0 | 218 | 14.9 |
| You are concerned that mammogram x-rays may be risky or dangerous | 27.0 | 30.2 | 22.2 | 46.7 | 33.0 | 470 | 32.1 |
| Mammograms cost too much for you | 16.5 | 22.6 | 15.0 | 36.7 | 8.0 | 286 | 19.5 |
| You do not like to have mammograms | 42.3 | 27.6 | 15.6 | 44.7 | 56.7 | 595 | 40.7 |
| You just never thought of getting a mammogram | 18.7 | 24.6 | 18.0 | 35.7 | 5.0 | 294 | 20.1 |
| Someone you know had a bad experience getting a mammogram | 28.6 | 22.1 | 27.5 | 40.7 | 29.0 | 441 | 30.1 |
| You do not want a mammogram because you are afraid to find out if you have cancer |
12.9 | 17.1 | 8.4 | 26.0 | 7.7 | 213 | 14.6 |
| You worry that you would not be able to pay for treatment if you got breast cancer |
42.3 | 58.3 | 33.5 | 73.0 | 25.7 | 678 | 46.3 |
| Mammography Pros Scale | |||||||
| You would have a mammogram if your doctor told you that it is important | 97.8 | 98.0 | 96.4 | 98.0 | 96.0 | 1,424 | 97.3 |
| Having a mammogram every year will give you a feeling of control over your healtha |
87.9 | 95.0 | 89.8 | 91.7 | 78.3 | 1,286 | 87.9 |
| It will be good for your family if you have a mammogram | 89.7 | 97.5 | 95.2 | 93.0 | 86.0 | 1,336 | 91.3 |
| Yearly mammograms give you peace of minda | 91.3 | 98.5 | 93.4 | 95.0 | 83.7 | 1,342 | 91.7 |
| A woman should get a mammogram even if no one in her family has had breast cancera |
97.0 | 96.5 | 97.0 | 94.0 | 95.0 | 1,403 | 95.9 |
| Having a mammogram every 1 to 2 years decreases a woman’s chance of dying from breast cancer |
75.7 | 92.0 | 83.2 | 83.7 | 91.3 | 1,223 | 83.6 |
NOTE: All variables differ across race/ethnicity at p < .001 except “you would have a mammogram if your doctor told you that it is important” (p = .43) and “a woman should get a mammogram even if no one in her family has had breast cancer” (p = .24).
a
Statements similar to Rakowski’s (1992) Pros and Cons Scale. Statement wording was written in simpler language.