Table 2.
Characteristics of patients eligible for mammography screening for breast and/or cervical screening, by serious mental illness (SMI) status
| Mammography eligible population | Cervical smear eligible population | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-SMI (n = 25,385) | SMI (n = 625) | p | Non-SMI (n = 106,554) | SMI (n = 1393) | p | ||
| n (%) | n (%) | ||||||
| Age group (years)a | |||||||
| Mammography | Cervical smear | 0.709 | <0.001 | ||||
| - | 25–34 | - | - | 47449 (44.5) | 261 (18.7) | ||
| - | 35–44 | - | - | 27579 (25.9) | 382 (27.4) | ||
| 50–54 | 45–54 | 9035 (35.6) | 218 (34.9) | 19910 (18.7) | 454 (32.6) | ||
| 55–64 | 55–64 | 11616 (45.8) | 296 (47.4) | 11616 (10.9) | 296 (21.3) | ||
| 65–70 | - | 4734 (18.7) | 111 (17.8) | - | - | ||
| Ethnicity | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||||
| British/mixed British | 7742 (35.8) | 189 (33.4) | 30953 (33.7) | 362 (28.8) | |||
| Irish | 528 (2.4) | 24 (4.2) | 1972 (2.2) | 31 (2.5) | |||
| Indian/Bangladeshi/Pakistani | 1423 (6.6) | 44 (7.8) | 5870 (6.4) | 75 (6.0) | |||
| Caribbean/mixed Caribbean | 3309 (15.3) | 142 (25.1) | 8880 (9.7) | 300 (23.9) | |||
| African/mixed African | 2957 (13.7) | 71 (12.5) | 11382 (12.4) | 227 (18.1) | |||
| Chinese/other | 991 (4.6) | 8 (1.4) | 4608 (5.0) | 30 (2.4) | |||
| Other white | 3741 (17.3) | 59 (10.4) | 23848 (25.9) | 135 (10.7) | |||
| Other black | 620 (2.9) | 21 (3.7) | 2586 (2.8) | 73 (5.8) | |||
| Other mixed | 307 (1.4) | 8 (1.4) | 1826 (2.0) | 24 (1.9) | |||
| Deprivation quintile | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||||
| Most deprived | 4706 (19.1) | 165 (26.5) | 18464 (18.0) | 365 (26.4) | |||
| 2 | 5188 (21.1) | 123 (19.7) | 21223 (20.7) | 303 (21.9) | |||
| 3 | 4891 (19.8) | 120 (19.3) | 21544 (21.0) | 272 (19.7) | |||
| 4 | 5024 (20.4) | 118 (18.9) | 22554 (22.0) | 247 (17.9) | |||
| Least deprived | 4838 (19.6) | 97 (15.6) | 18904 (18.4) | 197 (14.2) | |||
| Consultations | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||||
| Median/below median | 7222 (30.8) | 64 (10.5) | 42642 (44.1) | 184 (13.7) | |||
| Above median | 16238 (69.2) | 545 (89.5) | 53982 (55.9) | 1158 (86.3) | |||
aEligible age range for breast screening (mammography) 50–70 years; eligible age range for cervical cancer screening (cervical smear) 25–64 years