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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2017 Jul 28;123(22):4472–4480. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30908

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics by Randomization Groupa

Usual Care b
N=1163
Intervention c
N=3490

n (%) n (%)

Age at baseline (years)
 50–64 989 (85.0) 2977 (85.3)
 65–74 174 (15.0) 513 (14.7)

Female 652 (56.1) 1887 (54.1)

Race/Ethnicity
 Hispanic 43 (3.7) 110 (3.2)
 Non-Hispanic
  Black 44 (3.8) 184 (5.3)
  Asian 64 (5.6) 173 (5.0)
  White 948 (82.3) 2780 (80.0)
  Other 53 (4.6) 227 (6.5)

General Health
 Excellent/Very good 720 (62.0) 2208 (63.3)
 Good 337 (29.0) 1050 (30.1)
 Fair/Poor 104 (9.0) 228 (6.5)

Married or living with a partner 835 (72.0) 2595 (74.4)

Highest education
 High school grad, GED, or less 190 (16.4) 508 (14.6)
 Some college, 2-year degree, or vocational training 368 (31.7) 1097 (31.5)
 Bachelor’s degree or higher 603 (51.9) 1883 (54.0)

Primary health insurance
 Medicaid/Basic Health 19 (1.6) 31 (0.9)
 Commercial 907 (78.0) 2816 (80.7)
 Medicare 146 (12.6) 365 (10.5)
 Private pay 91 (7.8) 278 (8.0)

Never been screened for CRC 537 (46.2) 1620 (46.4)

First degree relative with CRC 55 (4.8) 158 (4.6)

Follow-up duration (days), mean (sd) 1552 (517) 1546 (520)

Follow-up duration (years), mean (sd) 4.25 (1.42) 4.23 (1.42)

Censored during 5-year follow-up, n (%) 339 (29.2) 1052 (30.1)
a

Missing data: Race/ethnicity (n=27); general health status (n=6); marital status (n=7); education (n=4); family history (n=72)

b

Usual care includes all participants randomized to the usual care arm in year 1 (and who received no active interventions over 5 years)

c

Intervention includes participants randomized to any of the 3 active interventions in year 1 and 2 (and includes both subgroups randomized in year 3 to stopped or continued interventions).