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Table 1 Characteristics of respondents (after weighting)

From: Factors associated with use and non-use of the Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kit for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Response to a 2012 outreach screening program: a survey study

 

Continuers + Converts

Continuers

Converts

Nonusers

(N = 916)

(N = 602)

(N = 314)

(N = 214)1

Wtd. % (n)

Wtd. % (n)

Wtd. % (n)

Wtd. % (n)

Group (% Continuers)

90.6 (602)

100 (602)

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Sex and age

    

 Female 52–64

38.0 (207)

35.0 (123)

43.7 (84)

41.4 (48)

 Male 52–64

31.8 (202)

29.3 (140)

36.6 (62)

37.7 (46)

 Female 65–76

17.0 (249)

20.0 (163)

11.2* (86)

11.9* (60)

 Male 65–76

13.2 (258)

15.7 (176)

8.5* (82)

9.0* (60)

Race/ethnicity

    

 nonHispanic White

82.4 (343)

83.0 (220)

76.7*(123)

76.2* (74)

 Black

8.1 (276)

7.8 (182)

10.3 ( 94)

10.3 (67)

 Hispanic/Latino

9.5 (297)

9.1 (200)

13.0 ( 97)

13.5 (73)

Education

    

  < 12 years

2.3 ( 54)

2.3 ( 34)

2.5 ( 20)

3.9 ( 11)

 High school graduate/GED

15.7 (204)

15.4 (146)

18.2 ( 58)

25.5 ( 64)

 Some college

36.3 (348)

36.4 (232)

35.3 (116)

30.9 ( 79)

 College graduate

45.7 (329)

45.9 (214)

44.0 (115)

39.7* (56)

In a committed relationship

78.7 (647)

79.5 (439)

70.7 (208)

73.2 (143)

Other

    

 Personal history of cancer

11.1 ( 83)

11.3 ( 59)

8.6 (24)

7.8 (20)

 Family history of CRC

12.1 ( 99)

12.3 ( 63)

10.2 (36)

7.7 (15)

 Knows someone who had CRC or pre-cancerous polyps

35.9 (272)

36.3 (186)

32.5 (86)

29.4* (40)

 Recalls getting more than 1 FIT kit in the mail in 2012

30.8 (225)

12.4 ( 67)

54.7 (158)

57.3 ( a )

  1. Wtd weighted, GED general education development (high school equivalency exam), CRC colorectal cancer, FIT fecal immunochemical test
  2. *Significantly different (P < .05) from Continuer group after adjusting for age group and race/ethnicity
  3. aNot asked in the abbreviated interview
  4. 1Data for Nonusers comes from 118 people who completed the questionnaire and 96 people who completed a phone interview that asked a subset of the questions. Demographic characteristics for the two groups did not differ significantly