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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Health. 2016 Aug;41(4):864–870. doi: 10.1007/s10900-016-0165-y

Table 2.

Associations between patient characteristics and follow-up colonoscopy completion (within 18 months & within 60 days)

Completed Colonoscopy within 18 months (n = 32) Completed Colonoscopy within 60 days (n = 14)

Characteristic Completed
colonoscopy
N (%)
Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted ORa
(95% CI)
Completed
colonoscopy
N (%)
Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted ORa
(95% CI)
Age (years)
  < 65 24 (60.0) 10 (25.0)
  65+ 8 (50.0) 0.87 (0.21–2.14) 0.85 (0.22–3.37) 4 (25.0) 1.00 (0.26–3.82) 0.94 (0.19–4.60)
Gender
  Male
  Female
14 (56.0)
18 (58.1)
1.09 (0.38 – 3.15) 0.88 (0.29 – 2.75) 9 (37.0)
5 (17.2)

0.34 (0.10–1.20)

0.25 (0.06–1.04)b
Ethnicity
  Non-Hispanic 19 (70.4) 10 (37.0)
  Hispanic 13 (44.8) 0.34 (0.11 – 1.03)b 0.36 (0.11 – 1.25) 4 (13.8) 0.27 (0.07 – 1.01)b 0.20 (0.04–0.92)c
Language
  English/Other 18 (64.3) 10 (35.7)
  Spanish 14 (50.0) 0.56 (0.19 – 1.62) 2.44 (0.21 –27.80) 4 (14.3) 0.30 (0.08 – 1.11) 0.97 (0.04 – 21.23)
Insurance
  No 10 (58.8) 2 (11.8)
  Yes 22 (56.4) 0.91 (0.29 –2.88) 0.80 (0.20 – 3.22) 12 (30.8) 3.33 (0.66 – 16.92) 2.66 (0.42-16.95)
Co-morbidities
  Diabetes
   No 20 (57.1) 11 (31.4)
   Yes 12 (57.1) 1.00 (0.34 – 2.98) 1.03 (0.31 – 3.44) 3 (14.3) 0.36 (0.09 – 1.50) 0.49 (0.10 – 2.44)
  Hypertension
   No 11 (47.8) 6 (26.1)
   Yes 21 (63.6) 1.91 (0.65 – 5.64) 2.05 (0.65 – 6.43) 8 (24.2) 0.91 (0.27 – 3.09) 0.97 (0.25 – 3.79)
  Smoker
   No 21 (56.7) 8 (21.6)
   Yes 11 (57.8) 1.05 (0.34 – 3.21) 0.67 (0.18 – 2.39) 6 (31.6) 1.67 (0.48 – 5.81) 0.90 (0.21 – 3.92)
a

Adjusted for age, sex, race, ethnicity, insurance status;

b

P-value trends toward significance of 0.05 < 0.06;

c

significant at p < 0.05