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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Health Psychol. 2018 Feb 2;23(2):407–419. doi: 10.1111/bjhp.12296

Table 2.

DKR by levels of risk appraisal type, other item-level characteristics and demographic-level characteristics (main effects).

Predictor DKR (%) P
Risk appraisal type
  Cognitive 17.3 <.001
  Affective 13.4
Item-level characteristics
Absolute vs. comparative .28
  Absolute 15.8
  Comparative 15.0
Disease type <.001
  Colon cancer 18.8
  Any of the diseases 11.9
Demographic-level characteristics
Sex .59
  Men 14.6
  Women 15.9
Education <.001
  Vocational-technical training or less 19.2
  More than vocational-technical training 12.1
Numeracy <.001
  0 20.9
  1 17.7
  2 11.6
Family history .11
  No 20.0
  Yes 14.6
Age --- .77