Participant’s Rankings for Numerical Explanatory Modes That Would Encourage Them to Take Medication and Help Them to Make a Decision (N = 934)
| Would Encourage to Take Medication | Would Help to Make a Decision | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | Ranked 1st n (%) | Reversed Rank Suma | Ranked 1st n (%) | Reversed Rank Suma |
| Relative risk reduction | 605 (64.8) | 4,042 | 603 (64.5) | 3,988 |
| Absolute risk | 107 (11.5) | 3,040 | 131 (14.0) | 3,149 |
| Natural frequencies | 103 (11.0) | 2,080 | 91 (9.7) | 1,989 |
| Odds | 85 (9.1) | 2,706 | 76 (8.1) | 2,668 |
| Number needed to treat | 32 (3.4) | 2,136 | 32 (3.4) | 2,213 |
↵a Reversed rank sum is the sum of rank scores after they have been reversed so that rank 1 is given a value of 5, rank 2 is given a value of 4, and so on.