Table 5.
Endorsed one or more versus no terms as making sense: descriptive statistics, adjusted ORs, 95% CIs and p values for variables in the multivariable binary logistic regression model
| Characteristic | Total (n=1888) |
Endorsed no versus at least one term as making sense: n (%) | Adjusted OR, 95% CI | P value | |
| No term (n=837; 44.3 %) | At least one term (n=1051; 55.7%) | At least one term endorsed (versus no terms endorsed) |
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| Overdiagnosis information | |||||
| Breast screening text | 987 | 429 (43.5) | 558 (56.5) | 1.16, 0.95 to 1.42 | 0.148 |
| versus prostate screening text | 901 | 408 (45.3) | 493 (54.7) | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 879 | 380 (43.2) | 499 (56.8) | 1.40, 1.13 to 1.74 | 0.002 |
| versus female | 1009 | 457 (45.3) | 552 (54.7) | ||
| Ethnicity | |||||
| white British | 1432 | 592 (41.3) | 840 (58.7) | 1.25, 0.97 to 1.61 | 0.080 |
| versus other ethnic groups | 456 | 245 (53.7) | 211 (46.3) | ||
| Marital status | |||||
| Married or living as a couple | 1133 | 500 (44.1) | 633 (55.9) | 1.05, 0.85 to 1.30 | 0.671 |
| versus single, widowed, divorced or separated | 755 | 337 (44.6) | 418 (55.4) | ||
| Highest level of education | Overall: 0.556 | ||||
| Other levels | 199 | 88 (44.2) | 111 (55.8) | 1.21, 0.80 to 1.82 | 0.374 |
| Approximately level 4 | 507 | 190 (37.5) | 317 (62.5) | 1.27, 0.88 to 1.84 | 0.204 |
| Approximately level 1, 2 or 3 | 890 | 396 (44.5) | 494 (55.5) | 1.24, 0.91 to 1.70 | 0.169 |
| versus no formal qualifications or don’t know | 292 | 163 (55.8) | 129 (44.2) | ||
| Social class grade | Overall: 0.574 | ||||
| Grade A or B | 386 | 137 (35.5) | 249 (64.5) | 1.09, 0.78 to 1.51 | 0.617 |
| Grade C1 or C2 | 931 | 420 (45.1) | 511 (54.9) | 0.94, 0.74 to 1.19 | 0.604 |
| versus grade D or E | 571 | 280 (49.0) | 291 (51.0) | ||
| Personal diagnosis of cancer | |||||
| Yes | 98 | 37 (37.8) | 61 (62.2) | 1.08, 0.68 to 1.74 | 0.741 |
| versus no | 1790 | 800 (44.7) | 990 (55.3) | ||
| Knows someone with cancer | |||||
| Yes | 1113 | 427 (38.4) | 686 (61.6) | 1.35, 1.09 to 1.68 | 0.005 |
| versus no or don’t know | 775 | 410 (52.9) | 365 (47.1) | ||
| Previously read a screening leaflet | |||||
| Yes | 1058 | 416 (39.3) | 642 (60.7) | 1.18, 0.91 to 1.52 | 0.206 |
| versus no or not sure | 830 | 421 (50.7) | 409 (49.3) | ||
| Previously read an NHS screening website | |||||
| Yes | 324 | 109 (33.6) | 215 (66.4) | 1.01, 0.75 to 1.37 | 0.955 |
| versus no or not sure | 1564 | 728 (46.5) | 836 (53.5) | ||
| Discussed screening with doctor/nurse | |||||
| Yes | 624 | 217 (34.8) | 407 (65.2) | 1.25, 0.97 to 1.61 | 0.091 |
| versus no | 1264 | 620 (49.1) | 644 (50.9) | ||
| Previously read or heard similar information | |||||
| Yes | 662 | 224 (33.8) | 438 (66.2) | 1.18, 0.93 to 1.50 | 0.185 |
| versus no or not sure | 1226 | 613 (50.0) | 613 (50.0) | ||
| Previously encountered any term(s) | |||||
| Yes | 1051 | 168 (21.2) | 625 (78.8) | 4.88, 3.89 to 6.11 | <0.0005 |
| No | 837 | 669 (61.1) | 426 (38.9) | ||
| Perceived clarity of information | Overall: 0.148 | ||||
| Extremely clear | 170 | 67 (39.4) | 103 (60.6) | 1.36, 0.85 to 2.17 | 0.204 |
| Very clear | 636 | 255 (40.1) | 381 (59.9) | 1.38, 0.96 to 1.98 | 0.083 |
| Moderately clear | 685 | 308 (45.0) | 377 (55.0) | 1.39, 0.97 to 1.98 | 0.073 |
| Slightly clear | 206 | 109 (52.9) | 97 (47.1) | 0.99, 0.64 to 1.53 | 0.953 |
| versus not at all clear | 191 | 98 (51.3) | 93 (48.7) | ||
| Mean (SD) | |||||
| Age (in years) | 1888 | 43.4 (15.6) | 43.7 (15.8) | 1.00, 0.99 to 1.00 | 0.262 |
Note: adjusted ORs and 95% CIs are relative to a stated reference category except age, which is per unit increase; p values <0.05 are in bold; all predictor variables are included in the model.