Table 2.

Preventive health model (PHM), self-efficacy, and fecal aversion statements.

Factor		Cronbach alpha	Statements
PHM a
	Salience and coherence	.73	Colorectal cancer screening makes sense to me.
			Having colorectal cancer screening is an important thing for me to do.b
			Having colorectal cancer screening can help to protect my health.
			I will be just as healthy if I avoid having colorectal cancer screening.c
	Social influence	.62	I want to do what members of my immediate family think I should do about colorectal cancer screening.
			Members of my immediate family think I should have colorectal cancer screening.b
			My doctor or health professional thinks I should have colorectal cancer screening.b
			I want to do what my doctor or health professional thinks I should do about colorectal cancer screening.
	Cancer worries	.80	I am afraid of having an abnormal colorectal cancer screening test result.
			I am worried that colorectal cancer screening will show that I have colorectal cancer or polyps.
	Perceived susceptibility	.65	The chance that I might develop colorectal cancer is high.
			Compared with other persons my age, I am at lower risk for colorectal cancer.c
			It is very likely that I will develop colorectal cancer or polyps.
			The chances that I will develop colorectal polyps are high.b
	Response efficacy	.59	When colorectal polyps are found and removed, colorectal cancer can be prevented.b
			When colorectal cancer is found early, it can be cured.
Self-efficacy		.75	I think that doing the test would be easy for me.b
			Finding time to do the test would be difficult for me.c
			Completing the test correctly would be easy for me.
Fecal aversion		.71	Collecting feces for the purpose of bowel cancer screening is unhygienic.c
			Collecting feces for the purpose of bowel cancer screening is distasteful.b,c
			Giving a sample of feces to another person is embarrassing.c

^a Preventive Health Model (PHM) construct descriptions and survey items reproduced from [8].

^b Statements used for tailored assessment.

^c Items were reverse coded.