Table 2.
Pre- and post-test familiarity by gender, ethnicity and age
| Familiarity Questions (% responding correctly) | Female | Male | NHW | Hispanics | <50 | 50+ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | Post | Pre | Post | Pre | Post | Pre | Post | Pre | Post | Pre | Post | |
| Knows what a colon polyp is | 28.6 | 85.9* | 26.9 | 83.9* | 71.6 | 97.4* | 19.1 | 82.7* | 24.2 | 86.8* | 37.6 | 82.5* |
| Knows what colon cancer is | 34.8 | 85.7* | 38.6 | 84.6* | 62.9 | 96.5* | 30.1 | 82.6* | 34.4 | 87.3* | 41.7 | 80.2* |
| Knows what CRC screening test is | 31.4 | 84.0* | 28.8 | 83.7* | 67.0 | 94.7* | 22.4 | 81.2* | 28.4 | 85.5* | 38.4 | 80.4* |
| Knows types of CRC screening tests | 14.2 | 78.6* | 9.6 | 76.8* | 24.1 | 86.1* | 10.5 | 76.3* | 10.1 | 79.5* | 20.4 | 73.2* |
| Survival of CRC is possible with early detection | 76.7 | 90.7* | 81.4 | 91.7* | 80.7 | 97.4* | 76.2 | 89.8* | 77.3 | 92.2* | 80.7 | 87.7 |
*
Difference in the distribution of percentage of correct answers at pre- and post-test significantly different at level p<0.01. Based on McNemar's test for paired binary data and the complete table of percentage correct and percentage incorrect at the pre- and post-test visits (data not shown).