Table 2.

Patient characteristics for the comparison and intervention groups

Patient characteristics	Comparison (N=177)		Intervention (N=142)
	(n) %	%	(n)	%
Age
50–60	(85)	48.0	(59)	42.8
61–70	(59)	33.3	(48)	34.8
71–80	(33)	18.6	(31)	22.5
Gender
Male	(75)	42.4	(56)	41.2
Educational attainment
< High School (HS)	(26)	14.7	(12)	9.0
HS or General Education Development (GED)	(77)	43.5	(57)	42.9
Some college or trade school	(34)	19.2	(31)	23.3
College	(23)	13.0	(19)	14.3
> college	(17)	9.6	(14)	10.5
How often need help reading?
Never/rarely	(140)	79.1	(108)	78.8
Sometimes/often/always	(37)	20.9	(29)	21.2
How often do you read books?
Never, < once a week	(65)	36.9	(39)	28.5
≥Once a week	(111)	63.1	(98)	71.5
When you are asked questions about your health what do you prefer?**
Read yourself/no pref.	(109)	62.3	(110)	81.5
Have read to you.	(66)	37.7	(25)	18.5
Currently smokes cigarettes	(33)	18.6	(17)	12.5
Has a first degree relative with CRC	(43)	24.3	(27)	19.4
Has personal history of:
Colorectal cancer	(0)	0.0	(5)	3.8
Colon or rectal polyp removed	(55)	31.1	(42)	31.8
Ulcerative colitis	(8)	4.5	(6)	4.7
Crohn's disease	(1)	0.6	(2)	1.5
Currently up to date* on CRC screening✪
FOBT	(14)	7.9	(8)	5.6
Sigmoidoscopy	(3)	1.7	(8)	5.6
Colonoscopy	(106)	59.9	(75)	52.8
Not up to date on CRC screening	(54)	30.5	(51)	35.9
Patients at
Practice 1	(35)	19.8	(27)	18.9
Practice 2	(45)	25.4	(42)	29.4
Practice 3	(28)	15.8	(19)	13.3
Practice 4	(35)	19.8	(26)	18.2
Practice 5	(34)	19.2	(29)	20.3

^*At time of doctor visit

^**Significant at .02 between comparison and intervention groups

^✪Self-report of CRC screening includes all the tests that patients reports and are not mutually exclusive