Table 2.
Health Behaviors of Rural and Urban Cancer Survivors from the National Health Interview Survey (2006–2010)
| Rural N=1642 (n, Weighted %, SE) | Urban N=6162 (n, Weighted %, SE) | p-value* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Body Mass Index | .10 (.23) | ||||||
| <25.0 | 549 | 34.5 | 1.30 | 2210 | 37.4 | 0.75 | |
| 25.0–29.9 | 533 | 34.8 | 1.43 | 2048 | 34.7 | 0.74 | |
| 30.0+ | 489 | 30.6 | 1.38 | 1653 | 27.9 | 0.69 | |
| Smoking | <.001 (.001) | ||||||
| Never | 675 | 39.9 | 1.49 | 2862 | 46.2 | 0.80 | |
| Past | 555 | 34.8 | 1.55 | 2228 | 38.0 | 0.81 | |
| Current | 393 | 25.3 | 1.22 | 995 | 15.8 | 0.62 | |
| Leisure-time Physical Activity # | <.001 (<.001) | ||||||
| Sufficiently Active | 263 | 18.8 | 1.45 | 1220 | 22.8 | 0.73 | |
| Insufficiently active | 448 | 30.5 | 1.41 | 2140 | 38.5 | 0.84 | |
| Inactive | 755 | 50.7 | 1.91 | 2349 | 38.7 | 0.88 | |
| Alcohol Use ± | <.001 (<.001) | ||||||
| Lifetime abstainer | 393 | 23.1 | 1.36 | 1240 | 18.4 | 0.59 | |
| Former | 497 | 30.6 | 1.39 | 1427 | 23.0 | 0.65 | |
| Current Infrequent | 210 | 13.6 | 1.16 | 860 | 14.3 | 0.56 | |
| Current Light | 296 | 19.8 | 1.09 | 1422 | 24.7 | 0.75 | |
| Current Moderate | 134 | 8.0 | 0.83 | 748 | 13.8 | 0.57 | |
| Current Heavy | 71 | 4.9 | 0.61 | 308 | 5.8 | 0.42 | |
First p-values are unadjusted; second p-values in parentheses are adjusted for age, gender, marital status, race/ethnicity, education, geographic region, health insurance, cancer type, and time since first cancer diagnosis.
Inactive (no leisure-time aerobic activity that lasted at least 10 minutes), insufficiently active (aerobic activities for at least 10 minutes but less than 150 minutes per week), or sufficiently active (moderate-intensity leisure-time physical activity at least 150 minutes or vigorous-intensity leisure-time physical activity at least 75 minutes per week).
Lifetime abstainer (less than 12 drinks in lifetime), former (12 or more drinks in lifetime, but none in the past year), current infrequent (1–11 drinks in past year), current light (≤3 drinks per week in past year), current moderate (4–14 drinks per week for men and 4–7 drinks per week for women), and current heavy (≥14 drinks per week for men, and ≥7 drinks per week for women).