Table 2.
Respondents Aged 50 Years and Older Who Are Up-To-Date for Cancer Screening and Adult Immunization by Age and Sex Group and Demographic Characteristics, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2002a
|
Men 50-64b
% (95% CI) |
Women 50-64c
% (95% CI) |
Men ≥65d
% (95% CI) |
Women ≥65e
% (95% CI) |
All Adults ≥50
% (95% CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Race/ethnicity | |||||
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| White (non-Hispanic) | 22.7 (21.8-23.7) | 22.2 (21.4-23.0) | 41.7 (40.3-43.0) | 34.6 (33.6-35.6) | 29.2 (28.7-29.7) |
| Black (non-Hispanic) | 18.6 (15.2-22.6) | 16.5 (14.1-19.3) | 26.2 (20.9-32.3) | 21.0 (17.4-25.2) | 19.4 (17.7-21.3) |
| Hispanic (all races) | 13.3 (9.8-17.8) | 17.9 (14.3-22.1) | 30.8 (22.0-41.2) | 22.2 (15.2-31.3) | 19.1 (16.4-22.2) |
| Asian or Pacific Islanderf | 12.4 (7.8-19.0) | 20.1 (12.2-31.3) | 25.7 (17.4-36.3) | 21.1 (10.6-37.7) | 17.6 (13.3-22.9) |
| American Indian or Alaska Nativef | 25.4 (14.4-40.9) | 17.7 (10.3-28.9) | 41.0 (25.0-59.1) | 28.2 (12.1-52.8) | 26.6 (19.8-34.6) |
| P valueg | <.001 | .03 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
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| Education | |||||
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| <High school degree | 12.4 (10.1-15.0) | 15.5 (13.2-18.1) | 29.5 (26.6-32.6) | 22.7 (20.0-25.5) | 20.4 (19.0-21.8) |
| High school degree or general equivalency diploma (GED) | 18.8 (17.3-20.4) | 18.5 (17.4-19.8) | 38.5 (36.0-41.0) | 30.5 (29.1-31.9) | 25.5 (24.7-26.3) |
| Some college | 22.0 (20.2-24.0) | 21.9 (20.5-23.4) | 43.8 (40.9-46.9) | 38.4 (36.3-40.5) | 29.4 (28.3-30.4) |
| College degree | 25.4 (23.8-27.0) | 25.4 (23.9-27.1) | 43.8 (41.5-46.1) | 38.9 (36.3-41.5) | 30.9 (29.9-31.8) |
| P valueg | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
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| Annual income,$h | |||||
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| <25,000 | 16.9 (15.0-19.1) | 16.4 (15.0-17.8) | 35.1 (32.7-37.5) | 27.2 (25.8-28.7) | 24.2 (23.3-25.1) |
| 25,000-49,999 | 19.4 (17.8-21.1) | 21.1 (19.7-22.6) | 42.4 (40.0-44.7) | 37.2 (35.1-39.4) | 28.9 (27.9-29.8) |
| 50,000-74,999 | 21.7 (19.7-23.8) | 22.0 (20.2-23.9) | 43.1 (39.2-47.2) | 40.5 (35.3-45.9) | 26.9 (25.6-28.3) |
| ≥75,000 | 25.6 (23.8-27.5) | 25.3 (23.4-27.4) | 42.4 (38.4-46.4) | 43.5 (38.1-49.1) | 28.6 (27.4-30.0) |
| P valueg | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
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| Insured | |||||
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| Yes | 23.3 (22.3-24.3) | 23.1 (22.3-24.0) | 40.1 (38.7-41.4) | 32.8 (31.8-33.8) | 28.9 (28.4-29.4) |
| No | 7.9 (6.6-9.5) | 7.8 (6.4-9.5) | 19.1 (13.9-25.6) | 16.5 (11.5-23.3) | 9.0 (8.0-10.2) |
| P value | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
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| Personal physician | |||||
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| Yes | 24.0 (22.9-25.0) | 22.8 (21.9-23.6) | 41.5 (40.1-42.9) | 33.8 (32.8-34.9) | 29.3 (28.8-29.8) |
| No | 8.0 (6.7-9.6) | 6.6 (5.0-8.5) | 20.7 (16.8-25.2) | 12.2 (9.7-15.1) | 10.1 (9.1-11.3) |
| P value | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
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| Health status | |||||
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| Fair or poor | 26.2 (24.0-28.6) | 22.0 (20.3-23.8) | 41.5 (39.0-44.1) | 31.6 (29.6-33.6) | 30.0 (28.9-31.1) |
| Good, very good, or excellent | 20.4 (19.4-21.4) | 20.9 (20.0-21.8) | 38.9 (37.3-40.4) | 32.9 (31.7-34.1) | 26.5 (25.9-27.0) |
| P value | <.001 | .27 | .08 | .29 | .001 |
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| Total | 21.4 (20.5-22.3) | 21.1 (20.3-21.9) | 39.6 (38.2-40.9) | 32.4 (31.4-33.4) | 27.3 (26.8-27.8) |
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| No. BRFSS respondents aged ≥50 (%) | 23,568 (22.3) | 33,389 (31.5) | 17,187 (16.2) | 31,716 (30.0) | 105,860 |
| No. BRFSS respondents aged ≥50 with missing data other than annual income (%)h | 609 (2.6) | 982 (2.9) | 1,327 (7.7) | 2,779 (8.8) | 5,697 (5.4) |
| No. BRFSS respondents aged ≥50 with complete data (except annual income)h | 22,959 | 32,407 | 15,860 | 28,937 | 100,163 |
N = 100,163; includes complete sets of data from 49 states and the District of Columbia. Illinois data are not included because the state used a split sample for some preventive services questions. CI indicates confidence interval.
Men aged 50–64 were up-to-date for preventive services if they met screening recommendations for colorectal cancer and had an influenza vaccination in the past year.
Women aged 50–64 were up-to-date for preventive services if they met screening recommendations for breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, and had an influenza vaccination in the past year.
dMen aged ≥65 were up-to-date for preventive services if they met screening recommendations for colorectal cancer, had an influenza vaccination in the past year, and had ever had a pneumococcal vaccination.
Women aged ≥65 were up-to-date on preventive services if they met screening recommendations for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer, had an influenza vaccination in the past year, and had ever had a pneumococcal vaccination.
These estimates are based on small numbers of respondents, resulting in wide confidence intervals and potentially unstable point estimates, and should be interpreted with caution.
P values <.05 indicate that being up-to-date is associated with a demographic characteristic within an age and sex group based on Pearson's chi-square test but do not specify which groups are significantly different from each other.
N = 82,769 for annual income; 17.4% (17,394/100,163) of otherwise complete questionnaires were missing data on annual income.