Psychological predictors of intention and avoidance of attending organized mammography screening in Norway: applying the Extended Parallel Process Model

Table 1 T-tests and One-way ANOVA tests investigating differences in defensive avoidance and intention for potential categorical predictors

Defensive avoidance						Intention to attend mammography
	T-test
	n	M	SD	t	CIs^a	n	M	SD	t	CIs^a
Place of residence				1.40	[− 0.03; 0.30]				− 3.26**	[− 0.63; − 0.19]
Urban	195	1.77	0.66			194	2.99	0.97
Rural	74	1.65	0.57			73	3.40	0.74
Ethnicity				− 4.37***	[− 0.60; − 0.22]				0.05	[− 0.25; 0.27]
Ethnic Norwegian	211	1.65	0.60			209	3.10	0.94
Migrant	56	2.06	0.68			56	3.09	0.90
Breast checks frequency				5.34***	[0.25; 0.55]				− 3.00**	[− 0.55; − 0.13]
Rarely or never	122	1.96	0.66			121	2.91	0.89
Weekly to yearly	147	1.55	0.57			146	3.25	0.93
Education level				− 2.18*	[− 0.32; − 0.03]				3.68**	[0.21; 0.63]
High school or less	95	1.63	0.60			94	3.37	0.80
Some form of higher education	172	1.80	0.66			171	2.95	0.95

R, regular; I, irregular; N, never
^aBCa bootstrap 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for mean differences between the groups of categorical predictors
^bMean difference = − 0.36, BCa bootstrap 95% CIs [− 0.59; − 0.15]
^cMean difference = − 0.40, BCa bootstrap 95% CIs [− 0.56; − 0.24]
^dMean difference = 0.93, BCa bootstrap 95% CIs [0.65; 1.19]
^e Mean difference = 1.22, BCa bootstrap 95% CIs [1.01; 1.41]
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001

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