Table 5.

Associations of Exposure to Conflicting Information about Mammography with General Health Information Confusion and Backlash

	In general, health information is confusing to me				Scientists keep changing their minds about what people should do to keep healthy
Measure	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Ecological exposure	−0.000				0.001*
	(0.001)				(0.0004)
Top-of-head thought-listing
References “old” only			−0.040				−0.011
			(0.113)				(0.138)
References new/change			0.115				0.246*
			(0.099)				(0.095)
Self-assessed exposure to conflict in media				0.075^ (0.040)				0.189*** (0.037)
Inferred exposure
Mammography conflict		0.192				0.103
		(0.136)				(0.129)
Age-related conflict		−0.139^				−0.197*
		(0.084)				(0.083)
Frequency-related conflict		−0.024				0.199*
		(0.101)				(0.101)
Personal conflict		−0.062				0.208*
		(0.085)				(0.088)
Observations	1,059	719	774	1,058	1,059	720	775	1,059
R-squared	0.038	0.073	0.062	0.042	0.037	0.088	0.071	0.063

Note. Robust standard errors in parentheses;

^***p<0.001

^**p < 0.01

^*p < 0.05

^{^}p < 0.1. For each outcome, we generated four models, one for each of the four types of exposure measurement, to avoid multicollinearity (1=ecological, 2=inferred, 3=top-of-head, 4=self-assessed). All models control for age category, gender, educational attainment, income, race, marital status, average health news consumption, and institutional confidence