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Table 2 Respondent characteristics in wave 2 (March 2017)

From: Reducing expectations for antibiotics in primary care: a randomised experiment to test the response to fear-based messages about antimicrobial resistance

Factor

Version 1 (N = 1000): ‘fear-only’

Version 2 (N = 1500): ‘mild-fear-plus-empowerment’

Version 3 (N = 1500): ‘strong-fear-plus-empowerment’

Mean or number

Standard deviation or %

Mean or number

Standard deviation or %

Mean or number

Standard deviation or %

Age

47.2

16.7

46.5

16.8

46.0

16.7

Household equivalent income (£)1

20,571

14,431

20,164

15,107

20,166

15,379

Own self-rated health (0–10)

7.2

2.0

7.3

2.0

7.3

2.0

Male1

502

50.3%

724

48.3%

715

47.7%

White1

899

90.3%

1352

90.6%

1355

91.0%

Christian1

486

49.6%

700

48.0%

672

45.7%

Higher education

448

44.8%

658

43.9%

650

43.3%

Unemployed

41

4.1%

74

4.9%

69

4.6%

Sick or disabled

38

3.8%

64

4.3%

60

4.0%

Married/civil partnership/live with partner

674

67.4%

1015

67.7%

979

65.3%

Born in UK

906

90.6%

1351

90.1%

1347

89.8%

Geographic region

 East Anglia

90

9.0%

138

9.2%

144

9.6%

 East Midlands

62

6.2%

111

7.4%

117

7.8%

 West Midlands

88

8.8%

121

8.1%

145

9.7%

 London

129

12.9%

198

13.2%

189

12.6%

 North East

42

4.2%

55

3.7%

7.1

4.7%

 North West

116

11.6%

177

11.8%

157

10.5%

 South East

149

14.9%

196

13.1%

206

13.7%

 South West

96

9.6%

120

8.0%

127

8.5%

 Yorkshire and Humberside

81

8.1%

121

8.1%

135

9.0%

 Wales

46

4.6%

88

5.9%

63

4.2%

 Scotland

77

7.7%

132

8.8%

109

7.3%

 Northern Ireland

24

2.4%

43

2.9%

37

2.5%

AMR information is ‘very/somewhat new’

285

28.5%

336

22.4%

388

25.9%

Antibiotics would ‘definitely/probably’ help ILI

279

27.9%

415

27.7%

418

27.9%

Antibiotics would ‘definitely/probably’ help child’s ILI

183/408

44.9%

255/587

43.4%

250/605

41.3%

  1. 1Version 1 denominator is 1000 except for household income (N = 940), gender (N = 999), ethnicity (N = 996), and religion (N = 979) where there was a ‘prefer not to answer’ option; version 2 denominator is 1500 except for household income (N = 1360), gender (N = 1499), ethnicity (N = 1493), and religion (N = 1459) where there was a ‘prefer not to answer’ option; version 3 denominator is 1500 except for household income (N = 1389), gender (N = 1498), ethnicity (N = 1489), and religion (N = 1469) where there was a ‘prefer not to answer’ option