. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 21.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2009 Jul-Aug;14(5):487–502. doi: 10.1080/10810730903032945

Table 5.

How patients reported on the pretreatment survey that they sought information in general about their health

Variable	Information seeking style
	Active N=124	Moderately active N=506	Passive N=101	P value
	%	%	%	P value
Reading as much information as possible¹	82.26	78.06	51.49	<0.0001
Talking to a friend	64.52	55.93	52.48	0.0609
Watching TV	20.16	18.38	21.78	0.8117
Reading pamphlets	61.29	72.13	48.51	0.1002
Talking with a medical expert	82.25	82.61	70.30	0.0354
Watching a video	16.13	19.37	11.88	0.4951
Surfing the Internet to find alternative explanations¹	47.58	36.76	14.85	<0.0001
Attending presentations or classes¹	20.16	18.38	8.91	0.0345

P value was derived from chi-square test for trends.