Table 3.

Characteristics of included and non-included patients in a targeted melanoma screening programme according to the poster displayed in the waiting room (France, 2011) per protocol analysis.

	Conventional poster		Alarmist poster
	Included patients N = 1066 n, %	Non-included patients N = 20,056 n, %	Included patients N = 956 n, %	Non-included patients N = 16,732 n, %	pb
Male gender	343; 32.18	7385; 36.82	251; 26.26	6487; 38.77	0.88
Agea	44.50; 15.97	46.15; 17.95	44.78; 14.76	48.45; 18.68	–
Age group
<25	112; 10.51	2840; 14.16	75; 7.85	2114; 12.63	0.74
26–50	617; 57.88	9369; 46.71	571; 59.73	7166; 42.83	0.39
51–75	291; 27.30	6377; 31.80	279; 29.18	5777; 34.53	0.50
76–100	46; 4.32	1470; 7.33	31; 3.24	1675; 10.01	0.40
Low socioeconomic status	70; 6.57	2053; 10.24	50; 5.23	1364; 8.15	0.83
Suffers from chronic disease	168; 15.76	3666; 18.28	127; 13.28	3372; 20.15	0.84
Farmer insurance system	51; 4.4	1477; 5.8	49; 3.2	1672; 5.8	0.591
Residential area
Rural	342; 32.08	5036; 25.11	374; 39.12	4674; 27.93	0.39
Urban	618; 57.97	12,597; 62.81	474; 49.58	9987; 59.69	0.64
	106; 9.94	2423; 12.08	108; 11.30	2071; 12.38	–

^aMean, SD.

^bAdjusted on GP as a random factor.