Table 5.
Fatalistic belief | Cancer information seeking; OR (95% CI) | Unweighted n |
---|---|---|
Agrees “. . . everything causes cancer” | 1.01 (0.71, 1.43) | 1,981 |
Agrees “. . . not much you can do” | 0.63 (0.43, 0.93) | 1,974 |
Agrees “. . . automatically think of death” | 0.80 (0.58, 1.12) | 1,973 |
Note. HINTS = Health Information and National Trends Survey; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. “Agree” refers to combined responses of “strongly agree” and “somewhat agree.” All models adjusted for age, sex, education, household income, race/ethnicity, marital status, and family cancer history.