Table 1.

Weighted percentage of respondents by beliefs about DTCA.

	“Ads for prescription drugs tell me enough about the benefits of using the drugs”
“Ads for prescription drugs tell me enough about their negative side effects”	Agree	Disagree	No opinion	Total
Agree	23.16%	4.18%	1.84%	29.18%
Disagree	9.04%	41.07%	1.50%	51.61%
No opinion	0.71%	0.95%	17.54%	19.21%
Total	32.91%	46.21%	20.88%	100.00%

Note. N = 3,959. Respondents who refused to answer either question or did not provide codeable responses (n = 67) or who completed a short form of the survey that did not include these questions (n = 443) were considered missing data.