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. 2018 Feb 19;5(1):e6. doi: 10.2196/humanfactors.9039

Table 1.

Participant sociodemographic, scan, and internet characteristics (N=268).

Characteristic n (%)a
Mean age years (SD) 53 (15)
Gender

Male 120 (44.8)

Female 148 (55.2)
Marital status

Married or partner 148 (64.9)

Not married/living with partner 80 (35.1)
Education completed

High school or less 169 (63.1)

More than high school 99 (36.9)
Geographic location

Metropolitan 212 (79.1)

Nonmetropolitan 56 (20.9)
Scan type

CT 104 (38.8)

MRI 160 (59.7)

Don’t know 4 (1.5)
Used internet for scan

Yes 29 (10.9)

No 237 (88.8)

Don’t know 1 (0.3)
Frequency of internet use

Less than once a month 11 (4.1)

Once a month 5 (1.8)

A few times a month 14 (5.2)

A few times a week 36 (13.5)

About once a day 51 (19.1)

Several times a day 150 (56.2)
Information amount preference

No information 2 (0.8)

Some information 59 (26.0)

A lot of information 166 (73.1)

aNumber of observations for each characteristic may not total 268 because of missing data.