Table 4.

Participants Perception of Barriers to Presentation by Sociodemographics.^a

Variables	Barriers OR (95% CI)
	Embarrassed	Scared	Worried Wasting Doctor Time	Difficult Talking to Doctor	Difficult to Make an Appointment	Busy and No Time to Go to Doctor	Many Other Things to Worry	Difficult to Arrange Transport	Worried What Doctor Might Find	Would Not Feel Confident Talking About Symptoms
Gender
Men	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Women	1.27 (0.97-1.67)	2.10b (1.60-2.76)	0.88 (0.64-1.22)	1.07 (0.79-1.44)	0.91 (0.69-1.20)	1.15 (0.87-1.51)	1.08 (0.82-1.42)	2.02b (1.49-2.73)	1.47c (1.11-1.93)	1.04 (0.79-1.38)
Age group
18-30	0.91 (0.47-1.74)	0.84 (0.43-1.65)	0.70 (0.34-0.14)	0.70 (0.35-1.38)	0.78 (0.39-1.53)	1.15 (0.57-2.31)	0.81 (0.41-1.64)	0.96 (0.46-1.99)	0.90 (0.45-1.82)	0.74 (0.38-1.45)
31-50	0.72 (0.38-1.37)	0.61 (0.31-1.17)	0.60 (0.30-1.22)	0.65 (0.33-1.27)	0.90 (0.46-1.76)	1.09 (0.55-2.16)	0.72 (0.36-1.43)	0.73 (0.36-1.51)	0.63 (0.32-1.25)	0.67 (0.35-1.30)
50+	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Education
No formal	2.17c (1.16-4.05)	0.62 (0.33-1.15)	3.32c (1.67-6.64)	2.81c (1.47-5.41)	1.41 (0.73-2.71)	0.97 (0.51-1.85)	1.47 (0.76-2.86)	4.0b (2.06-7.80)	1.62 (0.83-3.17)	1.33 (0.69-2.56)
School	1.58c (1.17-2.12)	1.09 (0.81-1.45)	1.83c (1.27-2.65)	2.11b (1.50-2.97)	1.28 (0.96-1.72)	0.82 (0.61-1.10)	0.85 (0.64-1.13)	2.20b (1.57-3.09)	1.03 (0.77-1.38)	1.30 (0.96-1.76)
University  and PG	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Marital status
Single	1.42 (0.63-3.17)	0.65 (0.28-1.49)	0.52 (0.22-1.21)	0.71 (0.31-1.62)	0.54 (0.23-1.25)	0.36 (0.13-1.02)	0.39c (0.16-0.98)	0.45 (0.19-1.08)	0.72 (0.30-1.72)	0.79 (0.36-1.73)
Married	0.96 (0.45-2.02)	0.62 (0.28-1.35)	0.56 (0.26-1.20)	0.53 (0.25-1.13)	0.07 (0.22-1.06)	0.25 (0.10-0.68)	0.31c (0.13-0.74)	0.36c (0.16-0.81)	0.63 (0.28-1.41)	0.63 (0.31-1.31)
Others	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; PG, postgraduate.

^aN = 999.

^b P < .001.

^c P < .05.