Satisfaction, discomfort, obligations, and concerns in population-based breast cancer screening: cross-sectional study in a Danish population

Table 4 Associations between satisfaction and background data and remaining outcomes

	Unadjusted PR (CI)	Adjusted^a PR (CI)
Age
50–54 years	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
55–59 years	0.93 (0.89–0.98) ^‡	0.94 (0.90–0.99) ^‡
60–64 years	0.93 (0.88–0.98) ^‡	0.92 (0.87–0.97) ^‡
65–70 years	0.94 (0.86–1.03)	0.94 (0.86–1.04)
Marital status
Married/Cohabitant	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Single	1.03 (0.96–1.11)	1.03 (0.96–1.11)
Ethnicity
Danish	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Immigrant (Western)	1.08 (0.91–1.27)	1.03 (0.85–1.25)
Immigrant (non-western)	0.71 (0.56–0.90) ^‡	0.75 (0.58–0.97) ^‡
Education
≤ 10 years	0.92 (0.89–0.96)	0.93 (0.90–0.96)
11–15 years	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
> 15 years	0.96 (0.92–1.01)	0.96 (0.91–1.01)
Discomfort
Pain (2)
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.83 (0.75–0.92) ^‡	0.82 (0.74–0.91) ^‡
Limits of modesty exceeded (2)
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.79 (0.70–0.89)	0.79 (0.71–0.88)
Feeling obliged (2)
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.94 (0.91–0.98) ^‡	0.96 (0.92–0.99) ^‡
Being concerned
At invitation (2)
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.66 (0.51–0.86) ^‡	0.67 (0.52–0.85) ^‡
Waiting for result(2)
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.84 (0.77–0.92) ^‡	0.85 (0.78–0.93) ^‡
More concerns after screening (3)
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.71 (0.50–0.99) ^‡	0.70 (0.50–1.00) ^‡
Concerns at any time
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.83 (0.76–0.91)	0.84 (0.77–0.91)
Screening test
Positive	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Negative	1.04 (0.87–1.26)	1.02 (0.83–1.26)

Associations between socio-demography, discomfort, obligations, concerns and being highly satisfied with breast cancer screening (1)
Prevalence Ratio (PR) with 95% confidence interval (CI)
Numbers in bold indicate statistically significant results
^‡ P-value <0.05
^aAdjusted for age, marital status, education and ethnicity
(1) Highly satisfied is defined as women answering “Excellent” in the question “What was your overall impression of the entire mammography screening process?” Less satisfied is defined as women answering either “Fine”, “Poor”, or “Really poor” in the same question
(2) Yes is defined as women answering either “to a great extent” or “to some extent”, while No is defined as women answering “to a minor extent” or “not at all”
(3) Yes is defined as women answering “more worried”, while No is defined as women answering “nothing has changed” or “less worried”

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