Table 5.
Percentage of fixated surrogates that were selected for each type of health information.
| Type of health informationa | For own health issue (group 1, N=18), % | For other’s health issue (group 2, N=18), % | No particular issue (group 3, N=22), % | ANOVAb
P-value (sig.) |
Post hoc P 1,2 | Post hoc P 1,3 | Post hoc P 2,3 |
| B1 SYM symptom | 37 | 11 | 2 |
.02 |
.01 |
.00 |
.01 |
| B3 HST history | 32 | 14 | 4 |
.01 |
.01 |
.00 |
.00 |
| E2 DIS description | 30 | 14 | 11 |
.17 |
.01 |
.00 |
.18 |
| E3 TRM terms | 7 | 29 | 4 |
.11 |
.01 |
.45 |
.01 |
| G1 TRT treatment | 16 | 35 | 4 |
.01 |
.01 |
.01 |
.00 |
| E1 RSN cause | 4 | 45 | 22 | .03 | .01 | .02 | .01 |
| H3 SMO smoking | 2 | 7 | 52 |
.01 |
.01 |
.00 |
.00 |
| H4 HOT hot topic | 1 | 6 | 64 |
.01 |
.01 |
.00 |
.00 |
| I1 RAR rare | 3 | 10 | 24 |
.02 |
.01 |
.01 |
.00 |
|
Overall percentage |
15 | 12 | 8 |
.37 |
|
|
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aTypes of health information with low percentage of occurrence in the fixated surrogates are excluded.
bANOVA: analysis of variance.