Inequalities in colorectal cancer screening uptake in Wales: an examination of the impact of the temporary suspension of the screening programme during the COVID-19 pandemic

Table 3 BSW uptake variation by demographics between period in 2020/21 and period 2019/20 (Invitation period 1st August-31st October)

Characteristic	Uptake (%) 2020/21	Uptake (%) 2019/20	OR	95% CI	p	aOR^a	95% CI	p
Overall	60.4	62.7	0.91	0.89–0.93	< 0.001	0.92	0.90–0.94	< 0.001
Sex
Male Female	59.5 61.3	61.8 63.6	0.91 0.90	0.88–0.94 0.99 − 0.93	< 0.001 < 0.001	0.92 0.93	0.89–0.95 0.89–0.96	< 0.001 < 0.001
Age group
60–64 years 65–69 years 70–74 years	55.0 60.7 68.5	58.5 62.8 68.0	0.91 0.91 1.03	0.87–0.96 0.87–0.95 0.98–1.07	< 0.001 < 0.001 0.241	0.86 0.92 1.04	0.83–0.89 0.88–0.97 0.99–1.09	< 0.001 < 0.001 0.101
Location
Urban Rural	60.1 61.3	61.8 64.8	0.93 0.86	0.91–0.96 0.82–0.89	< 0.001 < 0.001	0.95 0.86	0.92–0.98 0.84–0.91	< 0.001 < 0.001
Income deprivation
Q5 (least deprived) Q4 Q3 Q2 Q1 (most deprived)	65.0 62.1 61.0 58.0 54.8	69.4 66.0 63.0 59.4 53.9	0.82 0.84 0.92 0.95 1.04	0.77–0.86 0.80–0.89 0.87–0.97 0.90–0.99 0.98–1.10	< 0.001 < 0.001 0.001 0.040 0.231	0.83 0.86 0.94 0.97 1.06	0.79–0.88 0.82–0.91 0.89–0.99 0.91–1.02 0.99–1.12	< 0.001 < 0.001 0.022 0.197 0.153
Ethnic group
White Mixed Asian Black Other Unknown	62.5 55.7 49.1 54.5 51.5 51.4	65.1 54.8 55.8 48.7 55.4 51.2	0.89 1.04 0.77 1.26 0.85 1.01	0.87–0.92 0.70–1.54 0.59–0.96 0.74–2.16 0.46–1.58 0.95–1.06	< 0.001 0.854 0.045 0.393 0.611 0.833	0.91 1.25 0.82 1.46 0.96 0.99	0.88–0.93 0.82–1.90 0.63–1.08 0.81–2.62 0.48–1.92 0.94–1.06	< 0.001 0.297 0.168 0.204 0.911 0.949

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