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Experience with cancer screenings and unfavorable attitudes
| Unfavorable attitudes towards cancer screening | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Mammogram | BSE | BST | Colonoscopy |
| Had test | 1.34 | .62 | 1.06 | 1.42 |
| No test | 2.70 | 1.10 | 1.82 | 3.41 |
| Sig | .002 | .04 | .05 | .0001 |
| Men | PSA | DRE | BST | Colonoscopy |
| Had test | 1.24 | 1.36 | .50 | .81 |
| No test | 1.76 | 2.23 | 1.88 | 2.40 |
| Sig | n.s. | .03 | .001 | .0001 |
Cell means reflect a negative attitude towards the various screening tests. Thus, higher numbers reflect more unfavorable attitudes
