. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 19.

Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2012 Nov 5;33(1):71–77. doi: 10.1177/0272989X12464432

Table 1.

Descriptive Summary of Attitudes, Importance Ranks, and Proportion of Participants Considering Risk Information as Bad, by Disease

Disease	Attitude (1–7) Median/Interquartile Range	Importance Rank Mean ± SD (1–8)	% Considering Information Bad (6–7 on Negative Item)
Diabetes	6/5–7	4.87 ± 2.19	4.1
Heart disease	6.5/5–7	6.28 ± 1.86	2.1
Hypercholesterolemia	6.5/5.5–7	4.75 ± 1.97	1.7
High blood pressure	6.5/5.5–7	4.52 ± 2.03	1.3
Osteoporosis	6/5–7	2.94 ± 2.04	1.0
Lung cancer	6.5/5–7	4.30 ± 2.29	2.8
Colon cancer	6.5/5.5–7	4.78 ± 2.08	1.3
Skeen cancer	6.5/5–7	3.56 ± 2.31	1.7