Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Variable			N	%
Sociodemographics	Age (years)	60	58	18.0
		61	59	18.3
		62	68	21.1
		63	70	21.7
		64	67	20.8
	Marital status	Married or civil partner	208	64.6
		Separated or divorced	49	15.2
		Single	41	12.7
		Widowed	24	7.5
	Ethnicity	Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic	13	4.0
		White	309	96.0
	Education	No qualifications or GCSE/CSE/O‐level	125	38.8
		A‐level or equivalent (NVQ3)	71	22.0
		Higher education (Bachelor degree, Masters, PhD)	126	39.1
	Indices of multiple deprivation decile (n = 253)	1 (Most deprived)	16	6.3
		2	18	7.1
		3	23	9.1
		4	27	10.7
		5	35	13.8
		6	25	9.9
		7	24	9.5
		8	27	10.7
		9	35	13.8
		10 (Least deprived)	23	9.1
Health and health‐related behaviours	History of cancer	Yes	47	14.6
		No	275	85.4
	Smoking status	Never smoked	193	59.9
		Current or ex‐smoker	129	40.1
	Fruit/vegetable consumption in past month	Less than 5 portions per day	215	66.8
		5 or more portions per day	107	33.2
	Average number of days doing 30 min of exercise in the last week		Mean = 3.1 (SD = 2.462)
Screening history	Timing of last mammography	5 or more years ago	11	3.4
		3–4 years ago	40	12.4
		Within the last 2 years	271	84.2
	Bowel cancer screening in the last 2 years	Yes	254	78.9
		No	68	21.1
	Cervical cancer screening in the last 5 years	Yes	217	67.4
		No	105	32.6

Note: n = 322 unless stated otherwise.