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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2015 Jul 2;20(11):1243–1254. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1018644

Table 4.

Patients’ Direct and Indirect Actions Displaying Fears, Uncertainties, and Hopes (N=1,070)

Type of Action Selected Exemplars (and Interview ID#) Number of
Action Types		 Percent
of Total		 Inter-rater
(Cohen kappa)
Fear-Direct (lexical/“afraid” →) graphic file with name nihms747073t1.jpg (OC 5:5) 31 2.9% .65
Fear-Indirect (states concern/asks question →) graphic file with name nihms747073t2.jpg (OC 4:6) 355 33.2%
Uncertainty-Direct (lexical/”I don’t know” →) graphic file with name nihms747073t3.jpg (OC: D1P2:2) 73 6.8% .94
Uncertainty-Indirect (asks question →) graphic file with name nihms747073t4.jpg (OC: D1P4:14) 351 32.8%
Hope-Direct (lexical/”hopefully” →) graphic file with name nihms747073t5.jpg (OC1: 17–18) 30 1.0% .67
Hope-Indirect (announces good news →) graphic file with name nihms747073t6.jpg (OC3: 18) 230 21.5%