Table 1. Sociodemographic and health care utilization characteristics of Ontarians 50–64 years of age with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities, and proportions who participated in colorectal cancer screening.
| Ontarians with intellectual and developmental disabilities (n = 15,791) | Ontarians without intellectual and developmental disabilities (n = 791,792) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | Fecal occult blood test in previous two years*, % | Up-to-date with colorectal tests † , % | n (%) | Fecal occult blood test in previous two years*, % | Up-to-date with colorectal tests † , % | |
| Age group, years | ||||||
| 50–54 | 6769 (42.9) | 16.6 | 28.8 | 309,199 (39.1) | 22.1 | 39.5 |
| 55–59 | 5296 (33.5) | 19.2 | 33.1 | 259,293 (32.7) | 27.4 | 49.4 |
| 60–64 | 3726 (23.6) | 20.2 | 36.1 | 223,300 (28.2) | 31.3 | 55.1 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 8505 (53.9) | 17.0 | 29.7 | 390,964 (49.4) | 24.1 | 44.2 |
| Female | 7286 (46.1) | 19.8 | 34.6 | 400,828 (50.6) | 28.7 | 50.1 |
| Residence | ||||||
| Rural | 2982 (18.9) | 17.1 | 31.3 | 105,354 (13.3) | 23.4 | 44.9 |
| Urban | 12,809 (81.1) | 18.6 | 32.1 | 686,438 (86.7) | 26.9 | 47.5 |
| Neighbourhood income quintile | ||||||
| 1 (lowest) | 5320 (33.7) | 18.0 | 30.4 | 139,167 (17.6) | 24.4 | 41.0 |
| 2 | 3332 (21.1) | 17.8 | 31.4 | 152,100 (19.2) | 26.9 | 44.7 |
| 3 | 2609 (16.5) | 20.5 | 34.7 | 154,355 (19.5) | 27.4 | 47.2 |
| 4 | 2365 (15.0) | 18.3 | 33.0 | 164,262 (20.7) | 27.6 | 49.6 |
| 5 (highest) | 1956 (12.4) | 18.7 | 34.4 | 172,159 (21.7) | 26.7 | 53.3 |
| Missing | 209 (1.3) | 3.8 | 14.4 | 9749 (1.2) | 8.2 | 23.5 |
| Resource utilization band ‡ | ||||||
| Non-users | 1085 (6.9) | 3.9 | 5.8 | 61,234 (7.7) | 7.5 | 14.0 |
| Healthy users | 370 (2.3) | 12.2 | 15.7 | 30,055 (3.8) | 21.3 | 31.9 |
| Low morbidity | 1607 (10.2) | 16.6 | 22.7 | 115,351 (14.6) | 24.2 | 37.3 |
| Moderate morbidity | 7876 (49.9) | 20.3 | 33.7 | 448,143 (56.6) | 29.6 | 52.0 |
| High morbidity | 2814 (17.8) | 20.0 | 39.3 | 98,213 (12.4) | 28.6 | 58.7 |
| Very high morbidity | 2039 (12.9) | 18.3 | 39.4 | 38,796 (4.9) | 24.5 | 55.1 |
| Enrolled with or seeing a physician in a primary care patient enrolment model | ||||||
| No | 5394 (34.2) | 10.5 | 22.2 | 220,568 (27.9) | 14.3 | 31.9 |
| Yes | 10,397 (65.8) | 22.4 | 37.0 | 571,224 (72.1) | 31.1 | 53.1 |
*April 1, 2008-March 31, 2010
† Fecal occult blood test in previous two years (April 1, 2008-March 31, 2010); sigmoidoscopy in previous five years (April 1, 2005-March 31, 2010); or colonoscopy in previous ten years (April 1, 2000-March 31, 2010)
‡ A validated measure of morbidity that defines an individual’s expected use of health care resources [24]