Table 1.
Sociodemographic variables
| Arkansas |
New York City |
Western New York |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | p | |
| Total number of cancer programs | 34 | 34.3 | 40 | 40.4 | 25 | 25.3 | 99 | — | — |
| Total number of cancer participants | 567 | 40.4 | 483 | 34.4 | 353 | 25.2 | 1403 | — | — |
| Number of female cancer participants | 465 | 40.1 | 435 | 37.5 | 259 | 22.4 | 1159 | — | — |
| Language preference | <.001 | ||||||||
| Spanish | 296 | 85.1 | 260 | 66.0 | 132 | 50.6 | 688 | 68.6 | |
| English | 17 | 4.9 | 67 | 17.0 | 54 | 20.7 | 138 | 13.8 | |
| No preference | 35 | 10.1 | 67 | 17.0 | 75 | 28.7 | 177 | 17.6 | |
| Country of origin | <.001 | ||||||||
| Mexico | 248 | 68.5 | 122 | 30.8 | 1 | 0.4 | 371 | 36.4 | |
| Puerto Rico | 0 | 0.0 | 73 | 18.4 | 182 | 69.5 | 255 | 25.0 | |
| United States | 13 | 3.6 | 54 | 13.6 | 51 | 19.5 | 118 | 11.6 | |
| Central and South America | 96 | 26.5 | 48 | 12.1 | 6 | 2.3 | 150 | 14.7 | |
| Dominican Republic and other | 5 | 1.4 | 99 | 25.0 | 22 | 8.4 | 126 | 12.4 | |
| Years living in the United States (if not U.S. born) | <.001 | ||||||||
| Less than 5 years | 59 | 16.6 | 32 | 10.1 | 12 | 15.2 | 103 | 13.7 | |
| 5–14 years | 173 | 48.7 | 124 | 39.2 | 11 | 13.9 | 308 | 41.1 | |
| 15 or more years | 123 | 34.6 | 160 | 50.6 | 56 | 70.9 | 339 | 45.2 | |
| Marital status | <.001 | ||||||||
| Married/partnered | 278 | 76.6 | 213 | 54.1 | 112 | 43.1 | 603 | 59.3 | |
| Not married | 85 | 23.4 | 181 | 45.9 | 148 | 56.9 | 414 | 40.7 | |
| Health insurance | <.001 | ||||||||
| None | 261 | 73.5 | 130 | 33.3 | 21 | 8.2 | 412 | 41.1 | |
| Public (Medicaid/Medicare) | 9 | 2.5 | 162 | 41.5 | 179 | 69.6 | 350 | 34.9 | |
| Work/self-paid/don’t know/other | 85 | 23.9 | 98 | 25.1 | 57 | 22.2 | 240 | 24.0 | |
| Arkansas |
New York City |
Western New York |
Total |
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| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | p | |
| Pretest knowledge score | |||||||||
| Overall cancer | 46.46 | 25.85 | 51.45 | 24.91 | 61.24 | 23.82 | 52.12 | 25.59 | <.001 |
| Breast cancer | 38.22 | 30.36 | 44.77 | 30.58 | 57.49 | 28.89 | 45.62 | 30.96 | <.001 |
| Cervical cancer | 54.75 | 29.84 | 57.91 | 28.91 | 64.98 | 27.85 | 58.56 | 29.22 | <.001 |
| Posttest knowledge score | |||||||||
| Overall cancer | 75.72 | 22.13 | 69.80 | 24.28 | 80.25 | 19.92 | 74.25 | 22.95 | <.001 |
| Breast cancer | 69.44 | 25.54 | 66.77 | 27.63 | 76.65 | 25.00 | 69.89 | 26.55 | <.001 |
| Cervical cancer | 79.40 | 25.60 | 74.20 | 27.01 | 82.43 | 23.74 | 77.90 | 26.00 | <.001 |
| Knowledge score difference | |||||||||
| Overall cancer | 29.68 | 24.52 | 18.33 | 23.66 | 18.90 | 20.10 | 22.70 | 23.85 | <.001 |
| Breast cancer | 31.41 | 29.85 | 22.05 | 29.58 | 19.91 | 24.53 | 25.08 | 29.05 | <.001 |
| Cervical cancer | 25.07 | 29.78 | 16.54 | 29.16 | 16.47 | 27.25 | 19.70 | 29.25 | <.001 |
| Screening adherence (age corrected) | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | p |
| Breast self-exam | .213 | ||||||||
| Adherent | 73 | 19.6 | 90 | 20.7 | 67 | 25.2 | 230 | 21.4 | |
| Nonadherent | 299 | 80.4 | 345 | 79.3 | 199 | 74.8 | 843 | 78.6 | |
| Pap test | .524 | ||||||||
| Adherent | 274 | 73.7 | 329 | 75.6 | 191 | 71.8 | 794 | 74.0 | |
| Nonadherent | 98 | 26.3 | 106 | 24.4 | 75 | 28.2 | 279 | 26.0 | |
| Mammography | <.001 | ||||||||
| Adherent | 38 | 25.0 | 133 | 60.2 | 97 | 61.0 | 268 | 50.4 | |
| Partially adherent | 45 | 29.6 | 44 | 19.9 | 33 | 20.8 | 122 | 22.9 | |
| Nonadherent | 69 | 45.4 | 44 | 19.9 | 29 | 18.2 | 142 | 26.7 | |
| Clinical breast exam | <.001 | ||||||||
| Adherent | 173 | 46.5 | 249 | 57.2 | 160 | 60.2 | 582 | 54.2 | |
| Nonadherent | 199 | 53.5 | 186 | 42.8 | 106 | 39.8 | 491 | 45.8 | |