Table 4.
The usage of different information sources based on identified ethnicity
| Not at all | Rarely | Sometimes | Mainly | Cramer V | p value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source/ethnicity | Estonian | Russian | Estonian | Russian | Estonian | Russian | Estonian | Russian | ||
| Health section in newspapers | 29% | 33% | 22% | 17% | 31% | 28% | 18% | 22% | 0.083 | 0.555 |
| Health magazines | 34% | 61% | 18% | 12% | 28% | 14% | 20% | 13% | 0.267 | 0.000 |
| Health sections of other magazines | 44% | 71% | 22% | 12% | 20% | 9% | 14% | 8% | 0.268 | 0.000 |
| Alternative health magazines | 55% | 79% | 22% | 11% | 17% | 6% | 6% | 4% | 0.262 | 0.000 |
| Health broadcasts in TV | 23% | 41% | 15% | 15% | 35% | 20% | 27% | 24% | 0.201 | 0.006 |
| Health broadcasts in radio | 32% | 62% | 26% | 17% | 27% | 12% | 15% | 9% | 0.297 | 0.000 |
| Illness-related webpages | 54% | 69% | 13% | 12% | 15% | 12% | 18% | 7% | 0.183 | 0.018 |
| Health-related webpages | 55% | 52% | 15% | 15% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 13% | 0.044 | 0.901 |
| Friends and acquaintances | 35% | 36% | 24% | 22% | 33% | 31% | 8% | 11% | 0.0806 | 0.523 |
| Family | 20% | 24% | 24% | 16% | 35% | 35% | 21% | 25% | 0.112 | 0.282 |
| GP | 1% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 12% | 12% | 85% | 85% | 0.19 | 0.991 |
| Specialist | 6% | 4% | 9% | 3% | 14% | 13% | 71% | 80% | 0.148 | 0.86 |
| Brochures/books from doctors | 13% | 14% | 15% | 9% | 25% | 21% | 47% | 56% | 0.119 | 0.234 |
| Patient organisation | 88% | 95% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 3% | 4% | 0% | 0.163 | 0.045 |