Table 5.
Mammography screening attendance in Sweden in 2017–18 by sum and specific combinationsa of sociodemographic risk factors for low attendance. Odds Ratios (ORs) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CIs).
| Variable | Total |
Attenders |
Adjusted for age and region |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%)b | n | % | OR (95% CI) | |
| Sum of risk factorsc | ||||
| 0 risk factors | 554,971 (36.24) | 501,109 | 90.29 | Ref |
| 1 | 470,700 (30.74) | 392,860 | 83.46 | 0.55 (0.55–0.56) |
| 2 | 297,837 (19.45) | 222,148 | 74.59 | 0.33 (0.32–0.33) |
| 3 | 135,373 (8.84) | 85,692 | 63.30 | 0.19 (0.19–0.19) |
| 4 | 53,229 (3.48) | 31,162 | 58.54 | 0.15 (0.15–0.16) |
| 5 | 17,570 (1.15) | 10,859 | 61.80 | 0.17 (0.17–0.18) |
| 6 | 1778 (0.12) | 1108 | 62.32 | 0.16 (0.14–0.17) |
| Low income + living alone | 42,674 (2.79) | 21,745 | 50.96 | 0.23 (0.23–0.24) |
| Social assistance + living alone | 98,524 (6.43) | 58,710 | 59.59 | 0.30 (0.29–0.30) |
a
Combinations of two specific risk factors are presented where attendance for the combination of factors is at least ten percent lower than for each individual risk factor.
b
Percent of all women (N = 1,531,458).
c
Living without a partner, lowest level of education, lowest income level, social assistance, not owning a home and Non-Nordic country of birth.