Selection of top three nursing homes | Selection of best nursing home | Selection of worst nursing home | Choice of nursing home | |
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Effect size† | Effect size† | Effect size† | Effect size† | |
Main effects of manipulations in presentation formats | ||||
Display of overall performance score | 0.039** | 0.005* | 0.038** | 0.001 |
Small number of quality indicators | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Type of evaluative symbols | 0.034** | 0.016* | 0.015* | 0.021* |
Interaction effects of manipulations in presentation formats | ||||
Display of overall performance score×small number of quality indicators | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Display of overall performance score×type of evaluative symbols | 0.063** | 0.015* | 0.010 | 0.007 |
Small number of quality indicators×type of evaluative symbols | 0.018* | 0.010 | 0.006 | 0.003 |
Display of overall performance score×small number of quality indicators×type of evaluative symbols | 0.012 | 0.013* | 0.009 | 0.018* |
Main effects of vulnerability-related consumer characteristics | ||||
Educational level | 0.002 | 0.003 | 0.000 | 0.007 |
Health numeracy | 0.066** | 0.034** | 0.068** | 0.033** |
Subjective health literacy | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Patient activation | 0.008 | 0.008 | 0.006 | 0.008 |
*Significant effect with significance level of 0.05.
**Significant effect with a significance level of 0.01.
†Partial eta squared, which is a measure of effect size for use in analyses of variance. The common thresholds for the magnitude of effect are 0.01=small; 0.06=medium; 0.14=large.