Table 4.

Pearson correlations between the CoG-NR score and other measure scores.

	Colon cancer	High cholesterol	Breast cancer
Correlation to genomic knowledge scale score (GKS)	0.49*	0.52*	0.51*
GKS alpha coefficient	0.75	0.79	0.76
Correlation corrected for attenuation	0.66	0.70	0.69
Correlation to heath literacy scale score (HLS)	0.15*	0.17*	0.15*
HLS alpha coefficient	0.91	0.88	0.89
Correlation corrected for attenuation	0.19	0.21	0.18
Correlation to objective numeracy scale score (ONS)	0.28*	0.27*	0.32*
ONS alpha coefficient	0.49	0.53	0.47
Correlation corrected for attenuation	0.47	0.43	0.54

*p < 0.001