. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2014 Apr 13;22(9):2497–2507. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2236-x

Table 2.

Prevalence of health media use among PFH-2 participants, HINTS 2005 smokers (ages 18–49 years), and HINTS 2005 nonsmokers (ages 18–49 years)

	PFH-2 participants			PFH-2 participants		HINTS 2005 smokers, ages 18−49 years		HINTS 2005 nonsmokers, ages 18−49 years

	n^a	%^a		n	%^a	n	%^a	n	%^a
Frequency of online health information seeking^b			Online health information seeking^b
At least once a week	55	16.7	Yes	230	84.6	302	78.9	271	79.0
At least once a month^c	59	17.9	No	42	15.4	81	21.1	72	21.0
Less than once a month	158	48.0		(n=272)^d		(n=383)		(n=343)
Did not use Internet	57	17.3
	(n=329)
Frequency of reading print health media content
At least once a week	66	20.1				191	37.5	155	38.0
Less than once a week	111	33.7				137	26.9	147	36.0
Never	152	46.2				182	35.7	106	26.0
	(n=329)					(n=510)		(n=408)
Frequency of watching television health media content
At least once a week	112	34.2				268	45.0	205	46.1
Less than once a week	110	33.5				153	25.7	129	29.0
Never	106	32.3				175	29.4	111	24.9
	(n=328)					(n=596)		(n=445)

Sample sizes may differ slightly due to missing data. Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding

PFH-2 online health information seeking items were categorical and asked about seeking in the past 15 months (since baseline data collection); HINTS online health information seeking items were dichotomous and asked about seeking in the past year

But less than once a week

Since only HINTS Internet users were asked online seeking items, the 57 PFH-2 Internet nonusers were excluded from this analysis for comparability