Table 3.

Correlations of Independent Variables and FOBT (n = 202)

Variables	Lifetime FOBT		FOBT in the previous year
	r-coefficient	p-value	r-coefficient	p-value
Socio-demographics
Age	0.01	0.890	-0.19	0.246
Gender	-0.11	0.112	-0.01	0.964
Years in U.S.	0.04	0.598	-0.43b	0.006
Marital status	-0.02	0.818	-0.06	0.733
Education	-0.06	0.372	0.04	0.795
Employment	-0.03	0.659	0.35a	0.029
Religion	0.13	0.075	0.08	0.618
Household income	0.05	0.464	-0.13	0.434
Acculturation	0.01	0.788	-0.21	0.197
Access to health care
Health insurance	0.07	0.302	-0.31	0.051
Having a regular doctor	-0.10	0.150	0.43b	0.006
Having doctor’s recommendation	0.51b	<0.0001	-0.07	0.689
Trust in doctor	-0.08	0.833	0.05	0.780
Health and cultural beliefs
Susceptibility	-0.08	0.267	0.21	0.203
Severity	0.01	0.947	0.04	0.833
Benefits	0.04	0.536	0.23	0.168
Barriers	-0.20b	0.004	0.12	0.461
Self-efficacy	0.22b	0.002	-0.29	0.077
Physical space	-0.02	0.770	-0.05	0.754
Health temporal orientation	0.14a	0.043	0.11	0.527
Internal control	0.00	0.951	0.14	0.402
External control	0.09	0.230	0.12	0.487
Health fatalism	0.19b	0.006	-0.15	0.351
Colon cancer fatalism	-0.06	0.416	-0.13	0.445

^ap < 0.05,

^bp < 0.01,

^cp < 0.001 (2-tail), Lifetime FOBT: Ever had FOBT in lifetime