Table 6.

Changes in estimates of health, health services, medical records, beliefs about cancer, and cancer by mailing for HINTS 4 Cycle 1 and HINTS 4 Cycle 3

Characteristics	HINTS 4 Cycle 1 Mailing			HINTS 4 Cycle 3 Mailing
	1	2	3	1	2	3
Health and health services
Fair or poor health	15.4	15.7	15.1	14.6	14.7	13.9
Very confident or completely confident take care of own health	67.2	68.0	68.0	66.6	67.1	67.9
Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge	43.1	42.5	42.4	NA	NA	NA
Have a doctor seen most often	65.9	64.7	63.4	63.3	63.7	63.6
Eat 2 or more cups of fruit per day	68.9	68.5	68.9	72.0	73.1	72.7
Eat 2 or more cups of vegetables per day	76.4	76.2	76.4	78.7	78.5	78.4
Access to health insurance	81.3	81.3	81.3	83.0	83.0	83.0
Smoked at least 100 cigarettes in lifetime	38.7	39.0	38.5	43.6	44.6	44.5
Heard of HPV	NA	NA	NA	68.0	67.5	67.7
Quality of care good, fair, or poor	23.7	24.1	25.8	26.1	25.9	26.5
Medical records
Have doctors who maintain medical information in a computerized record system	86.2	85.1*	84.0	88.7	87.8	87.7
Very important doctors share medical information electronically	64.9	64.1	64.4	62.9	62.9	63.0
Very important you should be able to get your own medical information electronically	70.8	70.0	70.3	65.5	65.3	64.9
Beliefs about cancer
Likely or very likely to get cancer in lifetime	36.1	35.7	35.1	31.7	32.3	32.3
Moderately or extremely worried about getting cancer	82.0	81.4	81.8	82.8	82.8	82.5
Agree it seems like everything causes cancer	61.5	62.5	63.1	67.1	66.3	65.8
Agree there’s not much you can do to lower your chances of getting cancer	32.3	32.9	33.7	29.5	29.4	29.2
Agree there are so many different recommendations about preventing cancer, it’s hard to know which ones to follow	71.2	70.8	71.1	74.8	72.7	72.1
Cancer history
Have family members who have had cancer	68.2*	65.3	64.7	66.6	66.7	65.9