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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2015 Mar 3;26(5):787–794. doi: 10.1007/s10552-015-0540-5

Table 1.

Mammography uptake in the three periods of the study among African American and other (non-African American) women in Savannah, Macon, and Columbus, GA

City Race/ethnicity Average number of mammograms
% change from P1 to P2b % change from P1 to P3b
P1a P2a P3a
Savannah (radio and print material) AA 125.2 183.1 150.2 46.3 20.0
Other 126.0 140.0 140.0 11.1 11.1
Macon (radio only) AA 59.2 71.1 50.7 20.2 −14.2
Other 33.5 41.7 39.5 24.5 17.9
Columbus (comparison site) AA 24.2 27.9 28.5 15.3 17.9
Other 12.0 13.1 13.0 9.5 8.3

P1 = period 1 (8/08–1/09); P2 = period 2 (2/09–8/09); P3 = period 3 (9/09–12/09)

AA African American

a

Monthly average of mammograms across a specified period. Averages are rounded to one decimal

b

Percent change (increase or decrease) relative to P1, eg., (P2–P1)/P1