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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2017 Feb 2;33(4):453–461. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1278495

Table 2.

Exposure to contradictory nutrition information by channel (Wave 1)

Frequencies [n (%)]
Mean SD Not at all A little Some A lot
Online news 1.77 .95 407 (51.1) 159 (20.0) 153 (19.3) 40 (5.0)
Social media 1.63 .93 476 (59.8) 126 (15.8) 113 (14.2) 41 (5.2)
Medical or health websites 1.63 .86 441 (55.4) 171 (21.5) 118 (14.9) 23 (2.9)
Television 2.13 .98 256 (32.1) 214 (26.9) 220 (27.7) 66 (8.2)
Print newspapers or magazines 1.81 .92 373 (46.9) 193 (24.2) 161 (20.3) 35 (4.4)
Family, friends or co-workers 1.96 .94 311 (39.1) 204 (25.6) 210 (26.4) 36 (4.5)
Your doctor or other health care professional 1.61 .88 474 (59.6) 134 (16.9) 126 (15.8) 26 (3.3)
Other source 1.38 .73 550 (69.1) 101 (12.7) 70 (8.8) 13 (1.7)