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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2017 Mar 31;37(6):657–669. doi: 10.1177/0272989X17699835

Table 1.

Participant characteristics (N=132)

Participant characteristic n %
Educational attainment
 Less than high school 1 0.8%
 High school degree 41 31.1%
 Some college 38 28.8%
 Associate's or technical degree 13 9.8%
 Bachelor's degree 17 12.9%
 Master's or doctorate degree 21 15.9%
 Missing 1 0.8%
Race
 Non-Hispanic White 98 74.2%
 Non-White 34 25.8%
Objective risk (personalized condition only)a
 Very much below average 0 0.0%
 Much below average 1 2.3%
 Below average 16 27.3%
 Average 7 13.6%
 Above average 33 47.7%
 Much above average 5 9.1%
 Very much above average 0 0.0%

M SD

Objective risk (personalized condition only)a 4.4 1.0
Age 55.8 9.1
a

Of the 66 participants randomized to the personalized risk condition, 4 did not complete the items required to calculate their objective risk estimates.