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. 2021 Jun 7;11:11906. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91479-7

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Social pressures do not motivate radon testing, and risk perceptions vary primarily by age. Panel (A) Overall distribution of responses assessing role of general social circle pressure in the decision to radon test. Panel (B) Response distributions assess immediate family, friend and landlord-related social pressure in decision to radon test. Panel (C) Overall distribution of Likert scale responses about concern of future radon exposure leading to illness. Panel (D) Relative concern about radon exposure leading to illness (as in C) as a function of sex. Panel (E) Relative concern about radon exposure leading to illness (as in C) as a function of sex and age. Mean Age refers to a geometric mean ± CI95%. Panel (F) Relative concern about radon exposure leading to illness (as in C) as a function of their first encounter with radon awareness information. Panel (G) Relative concern about radon exposure leading to illness (as in C) as a function of status (worked or qualified) in professions with or without the potential for a specialist on radon. Panel (H) Overall distribution of Likert scale responses to self-perceptions of future risk of illness assuming exposure to radon. Statistical comparisons are Mann–Whitney pairwise nonparametric t-tests of comparisons for scatter plot data, or 1-way ANOVA for all other data. ****p < 0.0001; ***p < 0.001; * = p < 0.05; ns = p > 0.05. Figures were prepared using Excel and GraphPad Prism 9.1.1 (225) (www.graphpad.com).