Figure 1.

Schematic representation of reported reasons among those who had not undergone colorectal cancer (CRC) screening (%): 27% reported that they were “unaware” of the need to be screened for CRC. Other reasons were “fear” (17%), “shame” (10%), “indifference” (16%), “other priorities” (23%) and “other” (7%). Fear and shame were more prevalent among women, while more men were indifferent, and stated that they had “other priorities” or that they “didn’t know”. However, no statistically significant difference was found between the sexes for any specific reason