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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Natl Med Assoc. 2010 Mar;102(3):219–227. doi: 10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30528-9

Table 2.

Zero-Order Correlations Between Each Barrier and Facilitator and the Dependent Variables

MD/No Symptoms Community/
No Symptoms
Community/
Symptoms
MD/Symptoms

R p R p R p R p
How effective screening −0.18 <.0001 −0.01 .83 −0.06 .22 −0.16 .003
Trust 0.11 .01 −0.20 <.0001 −0.22 <.0001 0.11 .03
Barriers
 AIDS −0.02 .431 0.11 .012 0.11 .014 0.01 .867
 Guinea pig −0.03 .428 0.02 .614 0.08 .076 0.08 .055
 Privacy −0.01 .521 −0.03 .481 0.03 .427 0.05 .296
 Upsetting family −0.08 .730 0.12 .003 0.10 .017 0.05 .244
 Fear of cancer −0.03 .317 0.06 .139 0.10 .019 −0.01 .896
 Unlikely to get cancer −0.10 .639 0.03 .396 0.11 .007 0.04 .326
 Lack trust in medicine 0.03 .380 0.11 .008 0.07 .100 −0.04 .282
 Fear of pain −0.07 .909 0.08 .052 0.08 .067 0.01 .904
 Embarrassment −0.16 .002 0.01 .773 0.06 .145 −0.06 .193
Facilitators
 Saves lives 0.26 <.0001 0.17 .000 0.12 .017 0.19 .024
 Friends/family encouraged 0.12 .014 0.13 .005 0.12 .008 0.11 .056
 Friends participate 0.13 .014 0.14 .003 0.11 .016 0.15 .015
 Friends/relative w/cancer 0.12 .000 0.10 .030 0.14 .003 0.20 .004
 MD encourages 0.25 <.0001 0.01 .760 0.00 .995 0.21 .008
 Dentist encourages 0.19 <.0001 0.04 .346 0.01 .899 0.16 .020
 Insurance 0.16 .013 0.14 .002 0.09 .057 0.17 .012
 Screening nearby 0.12 .002 0.23 <.0001 0.20 <.0001 0.13 .042