Variation in Blame Attributions across Different Cancer Types

Laura A.V. Marlow; Jo Waller; Jane Wardle

doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1298

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1298 Published July 2010

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Variation in blame attributions across five cancer types using different cutoffs.

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Table 1.

Sample characteristics (n = 1,596)

	%^*	N
Age (y)
16-39	34.3	548
40-59	33.6	536
60-97	32.1	512
Education
None	32.7	522
Low school level	28.9	461
High school level	24.7	394
University	12.9	206
Ethnicity
White	94.5	1,509
Non-White	5.3	84

↵*Unaccounted percentage is missing data.

Table 2.

Mean ranks and mean rank pair-differences for blame attributions

	Blame attribution rank differences
	Mean blame ranking	Leukemia	Breast cancer	Bowel cancer	Cervical cancer	Lung cancer	Chlamydia	Obesity
Leukemia	2.50	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Breast cancer	2.67	0.17	—	—	—	—	—	—
Bowel cancer	2.86	0.36	0.19	—	—	—	—	—
Cervical cancer	3.26	0.76	0.59	0.40	—	—	—	—
Lung cancer	4.87	2.37	2.20	2.01	1.61	—	—	—
Chlamydia	5.58	3.08	2.91	2.72	2.32	0.71	—	—
Obesity	6.26	3.76	3.59	3.40	3.00	1.39	0.68	—

NOTE: Values in boldface indicate that the difference between the two rankings was significant (i.e., greater than the critical value of 0.182 for P < 0.05).

Table 3.

Sociodemographic differences in cancer blame attributions (with outcome of “any blame”)

	Leukemia		Breast cancer		Bowel cancer		Cervical cancer		Lung cancer
	%	OR (95% CI)	%	OR (95% CI)	%	OR (95% CI)	%	OR (95% CI)	%	OR (95% CI)
Age (y)
16-39	13	1.00	19	1.00	24	1.00	36	1.00	74	1.00
40-59	6	0.46 (0.30-0.71)	13	0.62 (0.44-0.86)	24	0.98 (0.74-1.29)	33	0.87 (0.68-1.12)	71	0.83 (0.63-1.08)
60-97	7	0.52 (0.34-0.80)	13	0.63 (0.45-0.88)	21	0.86 (0.64-1.15)	41	1.22 (0.95-1.57)	65	0.65 (0.50-0.85)
Education
None	10	1.00	14	1.00	19	1.00	34	1.00	62	1.00
Low	9	0.86 (0.55-1.33)	15	1.03 (0.72-1.47)	21	1.09 (0.80-1.50)	40	1.30 (1.00-1.69)	70	1.47 (1.12-1.92)
Medium	8	0.52 (0.51-1.30)	15	1.07 (0.74-1.55)	27	1.56 (1.14-2.13)	35	1.03 (0.77-1.36)	77	2.04 (1.52-2.74)
High	6	0.63 (0.33-1.17)	16	1.15 (0.74-1.80)	29	1.73 (1.19-2.51)	38	1.16 (0.83-1.63)	79	2.26 (1.54-3.30)
Ethnicity
White	8	1.00	14	1.00	23	1.00	36	1.00	71	1.00
Non-White	17	2.33 (1.27-4.30)	23	1.77 (1.04-3.02)	27	1.29 (0.79-2.11)	44	1.37 (0.88-2.15)	66	0.79 (0.50-1.26)