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Table 7 Logistic regression: Has accepted, or would accept, an offer to be screened for bowel cancer = 1

From: Men and women: beliefs about cancer and about screening

Variables

β

Odds ratio

95% CI

Constant

1.65

  

Sex, male = 1

0.57

1.76

1.28 - 2.42

Income, < £10,000 = 1

-0.97

0.38

0.27 - 0.53

Experience: stomach problems = 1

0.50

1.65

1.19 - 2.28

Experience: cancer = 1

0.46

1.59

1.17 - 2.16

Current smoker = 1

-0.53

0.59

0.40 - 0.86

Bowel cancer believed to amongst the two most common = 1

0.49

1.64

1.18 - 2.27

No worries about cancer = 1

-0.76

0.47

0.33 - 0.65

Nagelkerke R2

0.10

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