Table 3.
Primary outcome measure – return of initial FOBT (Screened) within 3months, by literacy level.*
| All Patients | Study Arm |
p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Usual Care | Education | Nurse | |||
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Limited Literacy | N=537 | N=188 | N=98 | N=251 | |
| FOBT returned (Screened) | 264 (49) | 69 (36.7) | 51 (52.0) | 144 (57.4) | 0.0006 |
| FOBT not returned | 273 (51) | 119 (63.3) | 47 (48.0) | 107 (42.6) | |
| Screening Ratio 95% Confidence Interval |
1.00 | 1.39 (0.97– 1.98) | 1.60 (1.19 – 2.16) | ||
| p-value | 0.07 | 0.002 | |||
| Screening Ratio 95% Confidence Interval |
1.00 | 1.15 (0.99 – 1.34) | |||
| p-value | 0.07 | ||||
| Adequate Literacy | N=424 | N=87 | N=184 | N=153 | |
| FOBT returned (Screened) | 248 (58) | 37 (42.5) | 110 (59.8) | 101 (66.0) | 0.064 |
| FOBT not returned | 176 (42) | 53 (57.5) | 74 (40.2) | 52 (34.0) | |
| Screening Ratio 95% Confidence Interval |
1.00 | 1.27 (0.74– 2.20) | 1.58 (0.99 – 2.54) | ||
| p-value | 0.39 | 0.057 | |||
| 1.00 | 1.24 (0.92 – 1.67) | ||||
| 0.15 | |||||
*
p-values control for age (in years) and race (African American vs Caucasian and Hispanic).