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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Educ. 2012 Dec;27(4):752–758. doi: 10.1007/s13187-012-0372-x

Table 2.

Risk interpretation items stratified by framing and format

Text Only Text + Standard Bar Graph Text + Culturally Tailored Bar Graph
Total Correct
Risk
Interpretation Questions
Relative risk Absolute risk Relative risk Absolute risk Relative risk Absolute risk Total
(n =80) (n = 81) (n =74) (n =79) (n = 88) (n =84) (n = 486)
 0, n (%) 9 (11) 13 (16) 7 (10) 6 (8) 13 (15) 8 (10) 56 (12)
 1, n (%) 39 (49) 26 (32) 16 (22) 13 (17) 27 (31) 16 (19) 137 (28)
 2, n (%) 18 (23) 14 (17) 24 (32) 25 (32) 11 (13) 28 (33) 120 (25)
 3, n (%) 14 (18) 28 (35) 27 (37) 35 (44) 37 (42) 32 (38) 173 (36)
 Mean number correct (SD) 1.5 (0.9) 1.7 (1.1) 2.0 (1.0) 2.1 (0.9) 1.8 (1.1) 2.0 (1.0) 1.8 (1.0)