Table 2.
Treatment preferences for hormone replacement therapy at three and nine months' follow up. Values are numbers (percentages) of patients unless stated otherwise
Treatment preference
Intervention group
Control group
% difference (95% CI)
Three months' follow up
*
:
Therapy
36 (40)
40 (42)
2.1 (
16 to 12)
No therapy
41 (46)
30 (32)
14 (1 to 28)
Undecided
13 (14)
25 (26)
11.9 (
23 to
0.4)
Nine months' follow up
:
Therapy
36 (41)
31 (36)
5.8 (
9 to 20)
No therapy
46 (53)
44 (51)
2.3 (
13 to 17)
Undecided
5 (6)
12 (14)
8.1 (
17 to 1)
Data are missing for some participants.
Confidence intervals are based on
t
tests assuming unequal variances between study groups.
*
2
=5.573, df=2, P=0.06.
2
=3.30, df=2, P=0.2.
2.1 (
2=5.573, df=2, P=0.06.
