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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 May 9;23(8):1521–1528. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-1176

Table 1. Baseline characteristics of study participants (N = 945).

Age (years), n (%)
 50-59 658 (69.6)
 60-79 287 (30.4)
Sex, n (%)
 Female 589 (62.3)
 Male 356 (37.7)
Race, n (%)
 White 740 (78.3)
 Non-white 205 (21.7)
Education, n (%)
 High school or less 401 (42.8)
 Greater than high school 535 (57.2)
Marital status, n (%)
 Married (or living as married) 586 (62.2)
 Single/divorced/widowed 356 (37.8)
CRC and screening perceptions, n (%)
 Unfavorable 135 (14.3)
 Favorable 806 (85.7)
Screening decision stage, n (%)
 Decided against / Never heard of 42 (4.4)
 Not considering / Undecided about 191 (20.2)
 Decided to do 712 (75.3)
Screening test preference, n (%)
 Prefer FIT 185 (19.6)
 Equal preference for FIT and CX 395 (41.8)
 Prefer CX 365 (38.6)
Test access, n (%)
 Usual care 317 (33.5)
 Mailed access to FIT 52 (5.5)
 Mailed access to FIT and CX 441 (46.7)
 Mailed access to CX 135 (14.3)
Navigation, n (%)
 None 633 (67.0)
 Navigation for FIT 52 (5.5)
 Navigation for FIT and CX 125 (13.2)
 Navigation for CX 135 (14.3)

FIT: fecal immunochemical test. CX: colonoscopy.

Counts may not sum to 945 because of occasional missing data.