approached significanceP = .052
When controlling for gender, the effect of self-efficacy messages on melanoma-related self-efficacy approached significance ( P = .052), and women reported greater confidence that they could check their skin successfully than men on this scale of 1–5 (mean = 3.6, 95% CI = 3.5–3.7 vs 3.4, 95% CI = 3.3–3.5; P = .03, η p 2 = 0.01).