Table 6.

Sources of information used by time since diagnosis

Source	Received information within previous 6 months Time since diagnosis in months				Chi‐square test**	Mantel test***
	6–11 N = 47* % 95% CI	12–17 N = 57* % 95% CI	18–23 N = 47* % 95% CI	24–30 N = 66* % 95% CI
Surgeon	86	57	52	50	16.70	12.19
	73–95	43–70	37–67	37–63	P  = 0.00	P  = 0.00
Cancer specialist	60	23	16	9	36.62	29.79
	43–74	13–37	7–30	3–19	P  = 0.00	P  = 0.00
GP	43	36	24	25	5.64	4.86
	28–59	23–50	13–39	15–38	P  = 0.13	P  = 0.27
Breast care nurse	34	20	14	8	12.11	11.40
	20–50	11–34	5–27	3–18	P  = 0.01	P  = 0.00
Alternative/complementary practitioner	14	9	7	8	1.67	1.10
	5–28	3–20	1–18	3–18	P  = 0.64	P  = 0.30
Peer support programme volunteer	12	4	2	2	6.96	5.13
	4–25	0–13	0–12	0–9	P  = 0.07	P  = 0.02
Cancer telephone information service	9	7	2	2	4.53	4.14
	3–22	2–18	0–12	0–9	P  = 0.21	P  = 0.04
Support group	7	4	7	3	1.82	0.38
	1–19	0–13	1–18	0–12	P  = 0.76	P  = 0.54
Books	56	30	20	25	15.98	10.39
	40–71	18–44	9–34	15–38	P  = 0.00	P  = 0.00
Magazines	49	43	51	40	1.67	0.39
	33–65	29–57	36–66	28–53	P  = 0.64	P  = 0.53
Brochures	41	17	17	17	11.23	6.14
	26–58	8–30	8–31	8–29	P  = 0.01	P  = 0.01
Newspapers	33	28	33	35	0.73	0.24
	20–48	16–42	29–48	23–48	P  = 0.87	P  = 0.63
Television	53	55	54	60	0.60	0.44
	38–69	41–68	39–69	47–72	P  = 0.90	P  = 0.51
Radio	14	26	22	23	2.18	0.66
	5–28	15–40	11–36	13–36	P  = 0.54	P  = 0.42
Internet	7	2	4	5	1.43	0.01
	1–18	0–10	0–15	1–14	P  = 0.70	P  = 0.93
Family	18	7	13	10	2.90	0.68
	8–32	2–18	5–27	4–20	P  = 0.41	P  = 0.41
Friends	38	22	22	13	8.86	7.61
	24–54	12–36	11–37	6–24	P  = 0.03	P  = 0.01

*Varying levels of non‐response in each category.

* *Chi‐square, 3 d.f.

* * *Mantel test = Mantel test for trend of odds, 1 d.f.