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Table 4 Subjects' opinion on comprehension of illustration formats

From: Improving bone mineral density reporting to patients with an illustration of personal fracture risk

 

Easy to understand picture (percentage who picked as the easiest to understand)

  
 

Arrow

Bar

Faces

Stoplight

No. missing

P-value

Total (n = 124)

19

34

27

19

18

0.06

Gender, %

      

Female (n = 79)

22

33

32

14

18

Male (n = 45)

16

36

20

29

 

Education, %

     

High school or less (n = 26)

19

19

35

27

21

Some college (n = 42)

17

45

21

17

 

College graduate or more (n = 53)

21

32

28

19

 

Age,%

     

50-59 (n = 48)

23

22

21

23

18

60-69 (n = 48)

19

31

31

19

 

70+ (n = 28)

14

39

32

14

 

Site, %

     

Site A(n = 62)

23

32

21

24

18

Site B (n = 62)

16

36

34

15

 

Race, %

     

White (n = 91)

20

35

22

23

19

Black (n = 27)

19

30

44

7

 

Other (n = 5)

20

20

40

20

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