Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients and FIT return in the intention-to-treat analysis in Sea Mar Community Health Centers, mean (SD) or n (%).
| Overall N = 427 |
Automated calls only n = 218 |
Automated and live calls n = 209 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | |||
| Mean (SD) | 59.07 (6.67) | 59.59 (6.82) | 58.53 (6.49) |
| Age | |||
| 50–64 | 334 (78.2) | 166 (76.1) | 168 (80.4) |
| 65–74 | 93 (21.8) | 52 (23.9) | 41 (19.6) |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 198 (46.4) | 96 (44.0) | 102 (48.8) |
| Female | 229 (53.6) | 122 (56.0) | 107 (51.2) |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Hispanic | 135 (31.6) | 66 (30.3) | 69 (33.0) |
| Non-Hispanic | 289 (67.7) | 149 (68.3) | 140 (67.0) |
| Unknown | 3 (0.7) | 3 (1.4) | 0 |
| Preferred language | |||
| English | 279 (65.3) | 148 (67.9) | 131 (62.7) |
| Spanish | 106 (24.8) | 55 (25.2) | 51 (24.4) |
| Other | 42 (9.8) | 15 (6.9) | 27 (12.9) |
| Insurance | |||
| Medicaid or medicare | 342 (80.1) | 174 (79.8) | 168 (80.4) |
| Commercial | 14 (3.3) | 7 (3.2) | 7 (3.3) |
| Other | 71 (16.6) | 37 (17.0) | 34 (16.3) |
| Family income | |||
| <$20,000 | 224 (52.5) | 118 (54.1) | 106 (50.7) |
| $20,000+ | 73 (17.1) | 34 (15.6) | 39 (18.7) |
| Unknown | 130 (30.4) | 66 (30.3) | 64 (30.6) |
| Clinic | |||
| 1 | 186 (43.6) | 98 (45.0) | 88 (42.1) |
| 2 | 241 (56.4) | 120 (55.0) | 121 (57.9) |
| FIT returned | 169 (40%) | 87 (40%) | 82 (39%) |
| English preference | 91 (33%) | 47 (32%) | 44 (34%) |
| Spanish preference | 54 (51%) | 34 (62%) | 20 (39%)⁎ |
| Other language preference | 24 (57%) | 6 (40%) | 18 (67%) |
⁎
p for χ2 = 0.02 for reminder group comparison. For all other χ2 or Fisher's exact tests of differences in FIT return, p ≥ 0.12.