Who wants to join preventive trials? – Experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial [ISRCTN35338757]

Table 1 Distribution of women by their interest in participating in a randomized PHT preventive trial in Estonia and comparisons of the background characteristics of women according to their interest in participating. ¹⁾

	Interested	Want more information	Do not know	Non-interested	All respondents	No reply
	(n = 225)	(n = 163)	(n = 371)	(n = 553)	(n = 1312)	(n = 688)
	(% = 11)	(% = 8)	(% = 19)	(% = 28)	(% = 66)	(% = 34)
Median age, years ²⁾	51	53	53*	56***	54	53*
Lives in the capital, %	68	64	67	62	65	76 ³⁾
Married or cohabiting, %	62	64	63	58	61
≥ 12 years of education, %	64	62	60	61	61
In employment, %	78	72	73	67	70
Given birth, %	92	92	89	85⁴⁾	87

¹⁾ Adjusted for age
²⁾ Statistically significant: * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.0001 compared to the "interested" group
³⁾ Age adjusted OR 0.64 (CI 0.46 0.90), reference group "interested"
⁴⁾ Age adjusted OR 2.00 (CI 1.16 3.46), reference group "interested"

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