Table 4

Expected gains table (reduction in inappropriate behaviour) of BBC listenership and direct training

Actions
Odds Ratio (average individual risk)
Risk difference
Proportion requiring intervention
Gain**/1000 households

Universal listenership to the BBC New Home New Life soap opera*
0.61
0.046
53% current non-listeners
24.3
Stop or change current direct training programme*
0.57
0.044
32% in communities now exposed
14.1
Universal listenership and change direct training
0.52
0.066
67% is either non-listener or is exposed to training
44.2

*each excluding the effect of the others and the confounding effect of 'easy access to radios'

** 'Gain' is the risk difference divided by the proportion requiring intervention

Andersson and Mitchell International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:1   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-5-1

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