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. 2015 Jul 29;17(8):327. doi: 10.1007/s11051-015-3129-8

Table 6.

Relationship between familiarity and reluctance to purchase adjusted by age, gender and risk perception for public opinion only (yes versus no, where yes is the event category)

Label Familiarity Crude odds ratio 99 % LCI 99 % UCI Adjusted odds ratio 99 % LCI 99 % UCI
Food
Ref: ‘Yes’
No familiarity 1 (Ref) 1 (Ref)
Some familiarity 0.67 0.40 1.13 0.91 0.47 1.76
Moderate familiarity 0.71 0.41 1.21 1.48 0.73 2.99
Sunscreen
Ref: ‘Yes’
No familiarity 1 (Ref) 1 (Ref)
Some familiarity 0.79 0.50 1.24 1.28 0.70 2.36
Moderate familiarity 0.67 0.42 1.08 1.27 0.69 2.35
Off the shelf medicines
Ref: ‘Yes’
No familiarity 1 (Ref)^ 1 (Ref)
Some familiarity 0.58 0.36 0.91 0.86 0.49 1.51
Moderate familiarity 0.61 0.38 0.99 1.18 0.64 2.16
Pesticides
Ref: ‘Yes’
No familiarity 1 (Ref) 1 (Ref)
Some familiarity 0.65 0.41 1.02 0.98 0.54 1.78
Moderate familiarity 0.67 0.42 1.07 1.12 0.59 2.11
Tennis racquets/computers
Ref: ‘Yes’
No familiarity 1 (Ref)^ 1 (Ref)
Some familiarity 0.49 0.30 0.79 0.60 0.31 1.18
Moderate familiarity 0.35 0.21 0.58 0.54 0.25 1.16

^ Indicates that the overall familiarity factor is significant (P ≤ 0.01)