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Table 2 Preferences for screening strategies from AHP

From: Evaluating preferences for colorectal cancer screening in individuals under age 50 using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

 

Colonoscopy

N (%)

CTC

N (%)

FIT

N (%)

p-value χ2

Full Sample with preference (N = 239)

121 (50.6)

21 (8.8)

97 (40.6)

 
 

N(%)

N(%)

N(%)

 

Categorical Variables

 Age

   < 50

90 (57.7)

15 (9.6)

51 (32.7)

0.002

  50+

31 (37.8)

5 (6.1)

46 (56.1)

 

 Gender

  Woman

73 (48.3)

10 (6.6)

68 (45)

0.100

  Man

48 (54.5)

11 (12.5)

29 (33)

 

 Race

  White/Caucasian

100 (51.5)

14 (7.2)

80 (41.2)

0.205

  Not white/Caucasian

21 (46.7)

7 (15.6)

17 (37.8)

 

 Education

  HS or less

19 (43.2)

7 (15.9)

18 (40.9)

0.581

  Some college

33 (52.4)

3 (4.8)

27 (42.9)

 

  College graduate

42 (50.6)

7 (8.4)

34 (41)

 

  Some graduate school / Graduate degree

27 (55.1)

4 (8.2)

18 (36.7)

 

 Relationship

  Single

41 (45.6)

10 (11.1)

39 (43.3)

0.396

  Relationship/cohabitating

15 (42.9)

3 (8.6)

17 (48.6)

 

  Married

65 (57)

8 (7)

41 (36)

 

 Income

   < 30 k

25 (50)

3 (6)

22 (44)

0.548

  30 k to 59,999

30 (44.1)

5 (7.4)

33 (48.5)

 

  60 k to 89,999

32 (52.5)

8 (13.1)

21 (34.4)

 

   > 90 k

33 (55.9)

5 (8.5)

21 (35.6)

 

 Insurance

  No

16 (45.7)

1 (2.9)

18 (51.4)

0.277

  Private

88 (54)

15 (9.2)

60 (36.8)

 

  Public

17 (41.5)

5 (12.2)

19 (46.3)

 

 Regular provider

  Yes

79 (54.5)

13 (9.0)

53 (36.6)

0.276

  No

42 (44.7)

8 (8.5)

44 (46.8)

 

 Family, spouse, other close tested for CRC

  Yes

86 (51.8)

12 (7.2)

68 (41)

0.434

  No

35 (47.9)

9 (12.3)

29 (39.7)

 

 Anybody close ever died of cancer

  Yes

76 (56.7)

11 (8.2)

47 (35.1)

0.099

  No

45 (42.9)

10 (9.5)

50 (47.6)

 
 

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

ANOVA

Continuous Variables

 Health literacy

18.2 (2.0)

16.6 (3.1)

18.4 (2.0)

0.002

 Numeracy

4.6 (.96)

4.2 (1.0)

4.6 (.98)

0.205

 Decisional self-efficacy

82.9 (15.5)

74 (17.4)

83.6 (15.4)

0.041

  1. Individuals that expressed no clear preference (n = 8) were excluded from this analysis