Table 1.
Weighted sample characteristics per wave and for the combined sample (N = 2878).
| ABACUS 1 | ABACUS 2 | ABACUS 3 | ABACUS 4 | TOTAL | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N=1381 | N=719 | N=369 | N=409 | N=2878 | ||||||
| Age (mean and SD) | 65.14 | (3.20) | 65.06 | (3.19) | 65.58 | (3.27) | 65.34 | (3.47) | 65.21 | (3.25) |
| Gender: n (%) | ||||||||||
| Male | 701 | (45.7%) | 353 | (48.7%) | 201 | (50.1%) | 200 | (46.2%) | 1455 | (47.1%) |
| Female | 680 | (54.3%) | 366 | (51.3%) | 168 | (49.9%) | 209 | (53.8%) | 1423 | (52.9%) |
| Ethnicity: n (%) | ||||||||||
| White | 1316 | (96.1%) | 681 | (94.5%) | 346 | (94.5%) | 385 | (93.8%) | 2728 | (95.2%) |
| Other | 65 | (3.9%) | 38 | (5.5%) | 23 | (5.5%) | 24 | (6.2%) | 150 | (4.8%) |
| Marital status: n (%) | ||||||||||
| Married or living as married | 901 | (69.7%) | 442 | (64.7%) | 236 | (66.7%) | 254 | (64.8%) | 1833 | (67.4%) |
| Single | 122 | (7.4%) | 78 | (10.2%) | 50 | (11.7%) | 47 | (10.8%) | 297 | (9.1%) |
| Widowed, separated or divorced | 358 | (22.9%) | 199 | (25.1%) | 83 | (21.6%) | 108 | (24.4%) | 748 | (23.5%) |
| Social grade: n (%) | ||||||||||
| A/B | 347 | (30.9%) | 153 | (31.3%) | 85 | (31.1%) | 84 | (31.3%) | 669 | (31.1%) |
| C1 | 301 | (26.5%) | 142 | (21.6%) | 81 | (23.2%) | 91 | (21.6%) | 615 | (24.2%) |
| C2 | 255 | (21.4%) | 152 | (23.0%) | 60 | (16.4%) | 43 | (17.8%) | 510 | (20.7%) |
| D/E | 478 | (21.2%) | 272 | (24.1%) | 143 | (29.3%) | 161 | (29.3%) | 1054 | (24.0%) |
| Cancer worry frequency: n (%) | ||||||||||
| Never | 484 | (32.9%) | 360 | (49.2%) | 142 | (36.4%) | 176 | (42.6%) | 1162 | (38.7%) |
| Occasionally | 382 | (28.6%) | 237 | (34.7%) | 150 | (42.0%) | 145 | (36.4%) | 914 | (32.8%) |
| Sometimes | 257 | (19.5%) | 80 | (10.5%) | 57 | (16.2%) | 63 | (15.4%) | 457 | (16.3%) |
| Often | 66 | (5.1%) | 12 | (1.4%) | 8 | (2.3%) | 11 | (2.6%) | 97 | (3.5%) |
| Very often | 21 | (1.5%) | 6 | (0.8%) | 3 | (0.9%) | 4 | (0.8%) | 34 | (1.2%) |
| Missing | 171 | (12.3%) | 24 | (3.4%) | 9 | (2.4%) | 10 | (2.3%) | 214 | (7.5%) |
| Cancer worry intensity: n (%) | ||||||||||
| Not at all | 461 | (32.3%) | 315 | (43.7%) | 138 | (36.1%) | 165 | (39.7%) | 1079 | (36.6%) |
| Slightly | 511 | (38.4%) | 283 | (39.9%) | 164 | (46.4%) | 172 | (43.3%) | 1130 | (40.4%) |
| Quite | 244 | (18.4%) | 75 | (10.4%) | 38 | (9.6%) | 51 | (12.4%) | 408 | (14.5%) |
| Extremely | 110 | (7.6%) | 18 | (2.3%) | 19 | (5.4%) | 11 | (2.4%) | 158 | (5.3%) |
| Missing | 55 | (3.4%) | 28 | (3.7%) | 10 | (2.5%) | 10 | (2.2%) | 103 | (3.2%) |
| Cancer worry (combined measure): n (%) | ||||||||||
| No worry | 323 | (21.8%) | 267 | (37.1%) | 103 | (26.8%) | 130 | (31.1%) | 823 | (27.5%) |
| Moderate worry | 545 | (41.2%) | 322 | (45.3%) | 196 | (55.1%) | 203 | (50.8%) | 1266 | (45.2%) |
| High worry | 328 | (23.8%) | 93 | (12.7%) | 57 | (15.0%) | 65 | (15.7%) | 543 | (18.9%) |
| Missing | 185 | (13.2%) | 37 | (4.9%) | 13 | (3.2%) | 11 | (2.4%) | 246 | (8.5%) |
| Uptake: n (%) | ||||||||||
| No | 214 | (14.7%) | 122 | (16.1%) | 106 | (27.0%) | 112 | (26.5%) | 554 | (18.3%) |
| Yes | 913 | (68.2%) | 480 | (68.3%) | 252 | (70.5%) | 273 | (68.1%) | 1918 | (68.5%) |
| Missing | 254 | (17.1%) | 117 | (16.6%) | 11 | (2.6%) | 24 | (5.4%) | 406 | (13.2%) |
| Screening intentions: n (%) | ||||||||||
| No | 180 | (12.3%) | 105 | (14.1%) | 58 | (12.9%) | 48 | (10.3%) | 391 | (12.6%) |
| Yes | 1076 | (79.7%) | 555 | (79.3%) | 298 | (82.6%) | 334 | (83.8%) | 2263 | (80.5%) |
| Missing | 125 | (8.0%) | 59 | (6.6%) | 20 | (4.5%) | 27 | (5.9%) | 231 | (6.9%) |