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. 2013 Jan 17;7(1):e2014. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002014

Table 2. Inter-correlations between explanatory variables, and pre-hospital delay.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
1. Pre-hospital delay -
2. Timeline cyclical .37** -
3. Timeline acute - chronic −.14 −.13 -
4. Consequences .01 −.05 .36** -
5. Illness coherence .29** .47** −.33** −.14 -
6. Perceived effectiveness of treatment .32** .27** −.20* −.16 .41** -
7. Personal control .44** .51** −.21* −.06 .46** .41** -
8. Influence on course .12 .15 .04 .11 .06 −.15 .06 -
9. Helplessness .06 .01 .04 .02 .08 .07 .12 −.06 -
10. Emotional representations −.23** −.45** .29** .12 −.40** −.33** −.41** −.24** −.02 -
11. Perceived effect of alternative treatment .08 .03 −.19* −0.1 .13 .29** .11 −.03 −.03 −.08 -
12. Perceived effect of treatment at a health care center −.05 .14 .14 .25** −.08 −.17 .01 .16 −.06 −.04 −.44** -
13. Accurate causes .14 .37** .11 .30** .04 .10 .11 −.09 −.12 .02 −.09 .19* -
14. Chance as cause −.25 .15 .17 .13 −.34** −.26** −.53** −.10 −.22* .37** −.07 −.08 −.09 -
15. Behavior as cause .00 −.55** .15 .17 −.29** −.19* −.25** −.03 −.20* .33** −.05 .08 .08 .38** -
16. Knowledge on BU −.15 −.32** .24** .10 −.42** −.20* −.24** −.02 −.07 .30** −.22* .09 −.03 .30** .10
Effect sizea - L M S M L L S S M M S S M S S
**

; significant at 0.01,

*

; significant at 0.05,

a

Cohen's measure of effect size for mean difference on ‘pre hospital delay’: S = small (.2), M = medium (.5), L = large (.8).