Table 4. Percent stating reasons for not having a CRC test by ethnicity from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey among those aged 50 years and older.

	2005 CHIS
	Mexican American	Non-Latino White	P
	Endoscopy
Provider Barrier	n=150	n=1,657
Was not recommended	10.2	5.3	0.09
Did not know I needed test	6.8	2.2	0.05
Expensive, no insurance, cost	6.2	4.4	0.40
Have no doctor	0.0	0.1	0.43
Any provider barrier	23.2	12.0	0.01
Patient Barrier
No reason, never thought of it	4.7	9.5	0.06
Have not had any problems	10.0	7.0	0.40
Put it off, laziness	17.6	19.7	0.64
Painful, embarrassing, unpleasant	13.8	23.2	0.01
Had another CRC screening test	0.1	0.4	0.26
Any patient barrier	46.3	59.9	0.02
Other Reason
Other, unspecified	30.5	28.1	0.63
	FOBT
Provider Barrier	n=66	n=682
Was not recommended	8.1	6.4	0.61
Did not know I needed test	7.7	8.4	0.85
Expensive, no insurance, cost	2.2	1.1	0.42
Have no doctor	3.0	0.2	0.03
Any provider barrier	21.0	16.1	0.37
Patient Barrier
No reason, never thought of it	10.9	11.6	0.87
Have not had any problems	0	3.9	0.05
Put it off, laziness	37.3	29.4	0.34
Painful, embarrassing, unpleasant	15.4	10.2	0.36
Had another CRC screening test	0	3.5	0.20
Any patient barrier	63.6	58.7	0.52
Other Reason
Other, unspecified	15.3	25.1	0.13