Table 5.

Treatment preferences for hormone replacement therapy at three and nine months' follow up. Values are numbers (percentages) of patients unless stated otherwise

Treatment preference	Intervention group	Control group	% difference (95% CI)
Three months' follow up:*
Therapy	36 (40)	40 (42)	−2.1 (−16.3 to 12.1)
No therapy	41 (46)	30 (32)	14 (0.8 to 27.9)
Undecided	13 (14)	25 (26)	−11.9 (−23.3 to −0.4)
Nine months' follow up:†
Therapy	36 (41)	31 (36)	5.8 (−8.7 to 20.2)
No therapy	46 (53)	44 (51)	2.3 (−12.5 to 17.1)
Undecided	5 (6)	12 (14)	−8.1 (−16.8 to 0.7)

Data are missing for some participants. 

Confidence intervals are based on t tests assuming unequal variances between study groups. 

^*χ²=5.573, df=2, P=0.06. 

^†χ²=3.30, df=2, P=0.2.