Table 1.
Cancer screening, predisposing, enabling, and need determinants of 2014 health center patients 21 years and older
| Total (n = 5453) |
Non-Hispanic White (n = 1342) |
Hispanic or Latino (n = 1847) |
Non-Hispanic African American (n = 1278) |
Non-Hispanic “other” (n = 986) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predisposing | ||||||
| Age: Mean (SE) | 45.4 (0.51) | 48.3 (0.76) | 40.4 (0.87) | 43.2 (0.96) | 46.1 (2.12) | < 0.001 |
| Female | 63.4% | 62.4% | 64.5% | 64.5% | 64.7% | 0.8895 |
| High school graduate | 66.2% | 72.3% | 49.5% | 69.7% | 67.4% | < 0.001 |
| Overweight (25.0 < BMI < 29.99) | 26.1% | 24.3% | 35.5% | 21.2% | 22.9% | < 0.001 |
| Obese (30.0 < BMI) | 52.9% | 57.0% | 44.4% | 57.5% | 33.5% | < 0.001 |
| Current smoker (cigarettes) | 28.8% | 38.1% | 12.2% | 26.6% | 19.8% | < 0.001 |
| Enabling | ||||||
| Currently insured | 72.9% | 75.5% | 60.0% | 77.8% | 84.9% | < 0.001 |
| Has a usual source of care | 98.0% | 97.5% | 97.9% | 99.4% | 98.3% | 0.2645 |
| Need | ||||||
| Personal history of cancer | 6.3% | 8.9% | 3.3% | 3.2% | 6.1% | 0.0001 |
| Cancer Screening | ||||||
|
Had Pap test in past 3 years Women 21–70 years |
81.9% | 72.8% | 92.2% | 89.9% | 87.2% | < 0.001 |
|
Had mammogram in past 2 years Women 40 years and over |
70.3% | 64.2% | 76.4% | 81.4% | 80.3% | 0.0019 |
|
Colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy in past 10 years, or Fecal Occult Blood Test in past year Men and women 50 years and over |
60.2% | 58.6% | 59.3% | 61.3% | 74.9% | 0.2694 |