TABLE 1—
Sociodemographic Characteristics and Colorectal Cancer–Screening Rates Among Patients of Shelter-Based Clinics and Results of Bivariate Analysis: New York City, 2010–2012
| Variable | All Participants (n = 443), No. (%) or Mean ±SD | Participants With Up-to-Date CRC Screening (n = 125), No. (%) or Mean ±SD | P |
| Housing status | .001 | ||
| Homeless | 269 (60.7) | 53 (19.7) | |
| Domiciled | 174 (39.3) | 72 (41.3) | |
| Homelessness duration, y | 2.39a ±2.8 | 2.2 y ±0.58 | .75 |
| Gender | .33 | ||
| Male | 337 (76.1) | 99 (29.3) | |
| Female | 106 (23.9) | 26 (24.5) | |
| Age,b y | 59.8 ±7.47 | 62 | .001 |
| Race/ethnicity | .2 | ||
| White | 89 (20.1) | 32 (35.9) | |
| Black | 165 (37.2) | 47 (28.4) | |
| Hispanic | 115 (26.0) | 29 (25.2) | |
| Middle Eastern | 8 (1.8) | 4 (50.0) | |
| Asian | 10 (2.3) | 3 (30.0) | |
| Indian | 2 (0.5) | 0 | |
| Unspecified | 54 (12.2) | 10 (18.5) | |
| Health insurance status | .19 | ||
| Insured | 398 (89.8) | 116 (29.1) | |
| Not Insured | 45 (10.2) | 9 (20.0) | |
| Medicaid | 89 (22.4) | 15 (13.0) | |
| Medicare | 100 (25.1) | 43 (37.0) | |
| Other | 209 (52.5) | 58 (50.0) | |
| Medical history | |||
| Chronic diseasec | 333 (75.2) | 102 (30.6) | .05 |
| No chronic disease | 107 (24.8) | 22 (20.5) | |
| Mental illness | 212 (47.9) | 62 (29.2) | .56 |
| No mental illness | 61 (26.7) | ||
| Substance abuse | 82 (18.5) | 19 (23.1) | .27 |
| No substance abuse | 360 (81.5) | 105 (29.1) | |
| Alcohol abuse | 52 (11.7) | 10 (19.2) | .12 |
| No alcohol abuse | 389 (88.3) | 114 (29.3) | |
| HIV/ AIDS | 20 (4.5) | 6/20 (30.0) | .85 |
| No HIV/AIDS | 423 (95.5) | 119 (28.1) | |
| Provider counseling | .001 | ||
| Received | 248 (56) | 125 (50.4) | |
| Not received | 33 (7) | 0 | |
| Status unknown | 162 (37) | 0 | |
| Previous CRC screening | |||
| All screening | 20 (4.5) | 6 (5.0) | .85 |
| Abnormal resultsd | 7 (35) | 5 (83.0) | .05 |
Note. CRC = colorectal cancer.
a
Range = 2 mo–13 y.
b
Oldest participant was aged 84 years.
c
Diabetes, hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hyperlipidemia, and others.
d
The “Abnormal previous CRC screening” is a subgroup of “Previous CRC screening”. Therefore, the respective percentages are based on the “Previous CRC screening” denominator as 7/20 = 35% and 5/6 = 83%.