Table 6.

Consistency of information seeking and scanning behavior across decisions

Decision class	Observed agreement (SE)	Chance agreement	Kappa (SE)	N
Overall (across 5 topics)	.48	.33	.35	2,371
By decision group
Prevention	.57	.28	.37	2,382
Screening	.55	.37	.28	1,155
Cross prevention/screening	.44	.30	.20	1,105
By pairs of topics
Colonoscopy and mammogram	.52	.35	.25	1,127
Colonoscopy and PSA	.57	.39	.31	1,112
Exercise and diet	.58	.32	.38	2,227
Exercise and fruit and veg	.55	.32	.35	2,261
Fruit and veg and diet	.57	.31	.38	2,253
Colonoscopy and exercise	.42	.29	.19	2,238
Mammogram and exercise	.43	.30	.19	1,129
PSA and exercise	.39	.28	.15	1,111
Colonoscopy and fruit and veg	.47	.31	.22	2,255
Mammogram and fruit and veg	.47	.32	.23	1,132
PSA and fruit and veg	.49	.33	.25	1,112
Colonoscopy and diet	.42	.29	.18	2,215
Mammogram and diet	.42	.28	.20	1,103
PSA and diet	.46	.31	.21	1,106

Note:

^*denotes kappas significantly different than zero (p<0.05);

^**denotes p<0.01;

^***denotes p<0.001. Standard errors are likely underestimated as Stata does not allow for kappas to be run with weights, so we could not adjust appropriately.