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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2008 Apr 14;168(7):728–734. doi: 10.1001/archinte.168.7.728

Table 4.

Predictor of Obtaining Cancer Screening Test Among 1160 Women, San Francisco, California, 2003–2005a

Papanicolaou Test in Last 2 Years Mammography in Last 2 Years Colonoscopy in Last 10 Years



Unadjusted
Screened, %
Adjusted Odds Ratio
(95% Confidence Interval)
Unadjusted
Screened, %
Adjusted Odds Ratio
(95% Confidence Interval)
Unadjusted
Screened, %
Adjusted Odds Ratio
(95% Confidence Interval)
Risk perception
  No risk 58.5 1 [Reference] 82.2 1 [Reference] 18.7 1 [Reference]
  Very low risk 74.5 1.5 (1.0–2.3)b 87.9 0.9 (0.5–1.7) 43.7 1.4 (0.8–2.3)
  Low risk 73.0 1.6 (1.0–2.4)b 87.9 1.0 (0.5–1.9) 48.0 1.5 (0.9–2.4)
  Moderate 74.6 1.8 (1.1–3.1)b 90.8 1.2 (0.6–2.6) 57.1 2.1 (1.2–3.6)c
  High or very high risk 72.0 2.3 (1.1–5.0)b 84.6 0.7 (0.3–1.5) 62.8 2.8 (1.4–5.4)c
Ethnicity
  White 74.2 1 [Reference] 89.3 1 [Reference] 54.5 1 [Reference]
  African American 62.7 1.1 (0.7–1.9) 89.2 1.5 (0.7–3.0) 65.8 2.4 (1.5–3.9)c
  Latina 61.9 0.9 (0.5–1.5) 90.8 1.7 (0.8–3.5) 46.8 1.3 (0.8–2.2)
  Asian 72.1 1.0 (0.6–1.6) 80.7 0.8 (0.4–1.6) 22.9 0.7 (0.5–1.1)
a

Other explanatory variables are not shown in the table; all of these multivariate logistic models were also adjusted for age, education, income, marital status, cancer history, hysterectomy, health status, insurance status, numeracy score, and employment status.

b

P < .05.

c

P < .01.