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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants, n (%)

From: Crowd-figure-pictograms improve women’s knowledge about mammography screening: results from a randomised controlled trial

 

Control

Numeric

Pictogram

Age

 18–49

124 (84.4)

121 (84.0)

119 (84.4)

 50–70

23 (15.6)

23 (16.0)

22 (15.6)

Role at university

 Undergraduate

68 (37.4)

64 (36.8)

70 (41.2)

 Postgraduate

40 (22.0)

38 (21.8)

31 (18.2)

 Staff

62 (34.1)

55 (31.6)

48 (28.2 )

 Other

12 (6.6)

17 (9.8)

21 (12.4)

Subject area

 Arts and humanities

23 (14.6)

23 (14.9)

37 (24.5)

 Engineering

12 (7.6)

12 (7.8)

9 (6.0)

 Medicine, dentistry and health

59 (37.3)

54 (35.1)

45 (29.8)

 Science

31 (19.6)

26 (16.9)

29 (19.2)

 Social sciences

33 (20.9)

39 (25.3)

31 (20.5)

Country of birth

 UK

153 (86.4)

145 (86.8)

142 (87.7)

 Europe

15 (8.5)

13 (7.8)

9 (5.6)

 Non-European/overseas

9 (5.1)

9 (5.4)

11 (6.8)

Breast cancer screening within last 5 years

 Yes

39 (21.3)

40 (23.0)

32 (18.8)

 No

144 (78.7)

134 (77.0)

138 (81.2)

Breast cancer diagnosis within family

 Yes

66 (36.1)

58 (33.3)

55 (32.4)

 No

117 (63.9)

116 (66.7)

115 (67.6)