TABLE 2.
Patient Characteristics
| Intervention Group N = 131 |
Control Group N = 75 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Patient Characteristics | No. (%) | No. (%) | Pa |
| Age, y | |||
| 50–59 | 108 (82.4) | 65 (86.7) | .705 |
| 60–64 | 23 (17.6) | 10 (13.3) | |
| Sex | |||
| Female | 82 (62.6) | 35 (46.7) | .026 |
| Male | 49 (37.4) | 40 (53.3) | |
| Race | |||
| White | 80 (61.1) | 58 (77.3) | .005 |
| Black/African American | 7 (5.3) | 5 (6.7) | |
| Asian | 28 (21.4) | 3 (4.0) | |
| Other race | 1 (0.8) | 2 (2.6) | |
| Do not know/refused to answer | 15 (11.5) | 7 (9.4) | |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Hispanic | 32 (24.4) | 2 (2.7) | <.001 |
| Non-Hispanic | 97 (74.1) | 65 (86.7) | |
| Do not know/refused to answer | 2 (1.5) | 8 (10.6) | |
| Primary language | |||
| English | 72 (55.0) | 65 (86.7) | .006 |
| Spanish | 30 (22.9) | 4 (5.3) | |
| Otherb,c | 29 (22.1) | 6 (7.9) | |
| Interpreter needed | 49 (37.4) | 8 (10.7) | <0.001 |
| Previously been screened for CRC | 32 (24.4) | 24 (32.0) | .049 |
| Family history of CRC | 13 (9.9) | 8 (10.7) | .637 |
| Personal history of CRC or polyps | 13 (9.9) | 14 (18.7) | .056 |
| Diabetic | 19 (14.5) | 11 (14.7) | .944 |
| Smoker | 24 (18.3) | 27 (36.0) | <0.001 |
Abbreviation: CRC, colorectal cancer.
a
P values were derived from Pearson chi-square tests.
b
Other language for the intervention group included Vietnamese, Arabic, Nepali, Mandarin, Portuguese, Cantonese, Kurdish, Tagalog, Bosnian, Gujarati, Bengali, Krahn, and American Sign Language.
c
Other language for the control group included Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, Romanian, and Dinka.