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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2017 Apr 10;69(5):633–641. doi: 10.1002/acr.22979

Table 4. Impact of correct causal attribution on the urgency with which help would be sought.

Vignette Kruskal-Wallis Test (χ22,p) 2-way comparison Dunn’s Test, (Z, p-adj)
A) Joint stiffness and pain 8.12, 0.02 Correct vs. Approximate -0.97,0.99
Approximate vs. Incorrect 2.23, 0.08
Correct vs. Incorrect 2.49, 0.04

B) Joint stiffness, pain and swelling wrists and hands 6.18, 0.04 Correct vs. Approximate -1.57,0.35
Approximate vs. Incorrect 1.08, 0.84
Correct vs. Incorrect 2.46, 0.04

C) Joint stiffness, pain and swelling feet and ankles 0.70, 0.70 Correct vs. Approximate n/a
Approximate vs. Incorrect n/a
Correct vs. Incorrect n/a

D) Bowel Cancer 81.05, <.001 Correct vs. Approximate -2.56,0.03
Approximate vs. Incorrect 4.50,<.001
Correct vs. Incorrect 8.99,<.001

E) Angina 76.11, <.001 Correct vs. Approximate -0.69, 1.0
Approximate vs. Incorrect 7.11,<.001
Correct vs. Incorrect 7.82,<.001

Rank-based nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis Test was used to determine if there were significant differences in speed with which help would be sought between groupings of causal attributions; two-way comparisons were subsequently used to directly compare correct attribution with approximate and incorrect attributions. A Bonferroni adjustment has been applied to the p-adj values for the pairwise comparisons.