Table 3.
Independent associations of sample socio-demographic and health behaviour characteristics with cancer beliefs (N = 1082 adults in England).
| Sample characteristics | CAM |
CAM-MYCS |
CAM total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjusted B (95% CI); P | |||
| Age (years) | 0.05 (–0.0, 0.15); 0.25 | –0.18 (−0.30,−0.07); <0.01 | −0.07 (−0.13,−0.01); 0.04 |
| Sex | |||
| Male (ref) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Female | 2.3 (−0.5,5.0); 0.11 | −3.7 (−7.1,−0.32); 0.03 | −0.86 (−2.8,1.1), 0.39 |
| Ethnicity | |||
| White (ref) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Other | −5.4 (−9.3,−1.5); 0.01 | −11.7 (−16.1,−6.9); <0.01 | −8.6 (−11.5,−5.6); <0.01 |
| Marital status | |||
| Married/living with partner (ref) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Single | 1.7 (−1.2,4.6); 0.25 | 0.96 (−2.7,4.6); 0.61 | 1.3 (−0.73,3.4); 0.21 |
| Social grade | |||
| ABC1 (ref) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| C2DE | −2.7 (−5.7,0.2); 0.07 | −1.8 (−5.4,1.9); 0.35 | −2.2 (−4.3,−0.11); 0.04 |
| Education | |||
| Post-16 qualification (ref) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| No post-16 qualification | −5.5 (−8.7,−2.3); <0.01 | 0.36 (−3.8,4.5); 0.86 | −2.5 (−4.7,−0.15); 0.04 |
| Region of England | |||
| North (ref) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Central | −2.1 (−5.8,1.7); 0.28 | −2.6 (−7.2,1.9); 0.26 | −2.4 (−4.9,0.17); 0.07 |
| South | 0.54 (−2.9,4.0); 0.76 | −5.1 (−9.4,−0.70); 0.02 | −2.4 (−4.8,0.00); 0.05 |
| Aggregated behaviour risk score | |||
| 0–1 (ref) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2–3 | −5.7 (−9.0,−2.3); <0.01 | 1.6 (−2.5,5.7); 0.44 | −1.9 (−4.2,0.52); 0.13 |
| 4–6 | −11.7 (−16.2,−7.1); <0.01 | 6.8 (1.2,12.5); 0.02 | −2.0 (−5.3,1.2); 0.22 |
CI, confidence interval; CAM, Cancer Awareness Measure; CAM-MYCS, Cancer Awareness Measure—MYthical Causes Scale; CAM total, aggregated Cancer Awareness Measures; ref, reference group.
Significant associations are in bold italics.