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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: N Am J Med Sci (Boston). 2012 Jan;5(1):1–8. doi: 10.7156/v5i1p001

Table 3.

Acculturation and Colorectal Cancer Screening Status by Ethnicity.

Ethnicity
Cambodian Vietnamese Korean Chinese
Never Screened Screened Never Screened Screened Never Screened Screened Never Screened Screened
% % % % % % % %
Years live in the U.S.
 <15 yrs 96.5 3.5 90.6* 9.4 86.1* 13.9 73.9* 26.1
 >15 yrs 93.1 6.9 79.5 20.5 66.7 33.3 61.2 38.8
How well speak English
 Not at all 97.3** 2.7 92.6* 7.4 85.0 15.0 74.0 26.0
 Not well 73.3 26.7 83.7 16.3 75.5 24.5 62.0 38.0
Well/Very well 90.9 9.1 73.1 26.9 58.8 41.2 61.8 38.2
Usually Watch TV in
 Native language 95.7** 4.3 87.6 12.4 76.6 23.4 66.4 33.6
English 50.0 50.0 72.7 27.3 64.0 36.0 63.6 36.4
Usually Read News in:
 Native language 0.0 0.0 54.5** 45.5 100.0 0.0 47.8 52.2
 Don’t read it 98.2** 1.9 96.2 3.8 71.4 28.6 100.0
 English 85.7 14.3 87.0 13.0 74.4 25.6 66.9 33.1
*

P<.05 from chi square test

**

P<.01 from chi square test