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Published in final edited form as: J Community Health. 2017 Apr;42(2):349–357. doi: 10.1007/s10900-016-0261-z

Table 3.

Sources of health information by age category (≤45 vs. >45 years) among clients of the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (n = 497), August, 2014 through June, 2015

	Total	Age		p value

	N (%) 497	Age ≤45 years N (%) 183 (36.9)	Age >45 years N (%) 313 (63.1)
Sources of health information^a
Print media	213 (42.6)	67 (36.2)	147 (46.5)	0.02
Broadcast media	161 (32.6)	55 (30.2)	106 (34.0)	0.39
Health professional	399 (79.5)	133 (72.3)	265 (83.9)	0.002
Peers	128 (26.0)	55 (30.2)	73 (23.5)	0.10
Community center	11 (2.2)	1 (0.5)	10 (3.2)	0.05
Internet	262 (53.0)	136 (74.3)	126 (40.5)	<0.0001
Access Internet for self				<0.0001
Self	161 (76.3)	105 (93.8)	56 (56.6)
Someone else looks for me	50 (23.7)	7 (6.3)	43 (43.4)

Groups not mutually exclusive