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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2017 May 2;123(17):3356–3366. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30761

TABLE 2.

Patient Characteristics

Intervention
Group
N = 131
Control
Group
N = 75
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.