Table 3.
Multivariate Logistic Analyses Showing Predictors of Physician Recommendations for Mammography, Pap Test, and Colorectal Cancer Screening among Chinese American Women Aged ≥50 Who Had Regular Physicians
| |
Odds ratio (95% confidence interval) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sample characteristic | Mammography recommendation (n = 344) | Pap test recommendation (n = 358) | CRCascreening recommendation (n = 300) |
| Patient characteristics | |||
| Age, years | |||
| 50–64 | 2.04 (1.14–3.69)* | 2.42 (1.37–4.29)** | 1.94 (1.05–3.60)* |
| ≥65 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Educational level | |||
| Up to high school | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Some college or higher | 1.28 (0.72–2.27) | 1.85 (1.03–3.33)* | 1.65 (0.89–3.08) |
| Employed | |||
| No | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Yes | 1.18 (0.64–2.19) | 1.37 (0.76–2.45) | 0.94 (0.51–1.75) |
| Cultural views | |||
| Western | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Eastern | 0.86 (0.53–1.41) | 0.78 (0.49–1.27) | 0.84 (0.50–1.38) |
| Physician and healthcare characteristics | |||
| Physician specialty | |||
| Family medicine or general practitioner | 2.11 (1.31–3.40)* | 1.70 (1.06–2.48)* | 1.52 (0.92–2.49) |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Physician gender | |||
| Male | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Female | 0.91 (0.49–1.68) | 1.22 (0.67–2.21) | 0.78 (0.42–1.45) |
| Language used during visits | |||
| English | 1.71 (1.00–2.96)* | 1.58 (0.93–2.67) | 1.73 (1.00–3.00)* |
| Chinese | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Length seeing regular physician | |||
| ≤3 years | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| >3 years | 1.80 (1.10–2.97)* | 2.15 (1.31–3.53)** | 1.18 (0.70–1.98) |
a
CRC, colorectal cancer.
*
p < 0.05; **p > 0.01.