Table 1.
Characteristics of Study Participants Who Never Completed a Fecal Immunochemical Test in July and October Mailings
| Randomization condition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July mailing (1:1 randomization) | October mailing (3.8:1 randomization) | ||||
| Characteristic | Text message notification (n = 1093) N (%) |
Live phone call notification (n = 1062) N (%) |
Text message notification (n = 529) N (%) |
Live phone call notification (n = 141) N (%) |
Total (n = 2825) N (%) |
| Age (y) | |||||
| Mean (standard deviation) | 57.45 (5.76) | 57.36 (5.91) | 57.91 (6.46) | 58.39 (6.67) | 57.55 (6.00) |
| 50–64 | 955 (87.37) | 916 (86.25) | 430 (81.29) | 113 (80.14) | 2414 (85.45) |
| 65–75 | 138 (12.63) | 146 (13.75) | 99 (18.71) | 28 (19.86) | 411 (14.55) |
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 537 (49.13) | 535 (50.38) | 292 (55.20) | 78 (55.32) | 1442 (51.04) |
| Male | 556 (50.87) | 527 (49.62) | 237 (44.68) | 63 (44.68) | 1383 (48.96) |
| Ethnicitya | |||||
| Hispanic or Latino | 865 (79.14) | 825 (77.68) | 446 (84.31) | 110 (78.01) | 2246 (79.50) |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 207 (18.94) | 218 (20.53) | 73 (13.80) | 26 (18.44) | 524 (18.55) |
| Languageb | |||||
| English | 474 (43.37) | 476 (44.82) | 174 (32.89) | 55 (39.01) | 1179 (41.73) |
| Spanish | 584 (53.43) | 549 (51.69) | 343 (64.84) | 85 (60.28) | 1561 (55.26) |
| Other | 32 (2.93) | 34 (3.20) | 7 (1.32) | 0 (0.00) | 73 (2.58) |
| Federal poverty levelc (%) | |||||
| <100 | 894 (81.79) | 894 (84.18) | 433 (81.85) | 113 (80.14) | 2334 (82.62) |
| 100–200 | 149 (13.63) | 128 (12.05) | 69 (13.04) | 21 (14.89) | 367 (12.99) |
| >200 | 41 (3.75) | 37 (3.48) | 27 (5.10) | 7 (4.96) | 112 (3.96) |
| Insurance status | |||||
| Uninsured | 39 (3.57) | 38 (3.58) | 220 (41.59) | 51 (36.17) | 348 (12.32) |
| Medicaid | 709 (64.87) | 672 (63.28) | 92 (17.39) | 24 (17.02) | 1497 (52.99) |
| Medicare | 85 (7.78) | 79 (7.44) | 72 (13.61) | 20 (14.18) | 256 (9.06) |
| Commercial | 260 (23.79) | 273 (25.71) | 145 (27.41) | 46 (32.62) | 724 (25.63) |
| Clinic visits in past year | |||||
| Mean (standard deviation) | 1.83 (2.30) | 1.84 (2.53) | 1.39 (2.10) | 1.48 (1.91) | 1.73 (2.34) |
| None | 405 (37.05) | 428 (40.30) | 253 (47.83) | 63 (44.68) | 1149 (40.67) |
| 1 or more | 688 (62.95) | 634 (59.70) | 276 (52.17) | 78 (55.32) | 1676 (59.33) |
| Clinic | |||||
| Clinic 1 | 87 (7.96) | 87 (8.19) | 40 (7.56) | 10 (7.09) | 224 (7.93) |
| Clinic 2 | 332 (30.38) | 314 (29.57) | 183 (34.59) | 48 (34.04) | 877 (31.04) |
| Clinic 3 | 43 (3.93) | 43 (4.05) | 21 (3.97) | 7 (4.96) | 114 (4.04) |
| Clinic 4 | 93 (8.51) | 93 (8.76) | 14 (2.65) | 2 (1.42) | 202 (7.15) |
| Clinic 5 | 58 (5.31) | 54 (5.08) | 26 (4.91) | 6 (4.26) | 144 (5.10) |
| Clinic 6 | 57 (5.22) | 52 (4.90) | 33 (6.24) | 9 (6.38) | 151 (5.35) |
| Clinic 7 | 151 (13.82) | 150 (14.12) | 106 (20.04) | 31 (21.99) | 438 (15.50) |
| Clinic 8 | 272 (24.89) | 269 (25.33) | 106 (20.04) | 28 (19.86) | 675 (23.89) |
a
55 patients with unknown/missing ethnicity (July: 21 text, 19 live call; October: 10 text, 5 live call) were omitted.
b
12 patients with missing language (July: 3 text, 3 live call; October: 5 text, 1 live call) were omitted.
c
Calculated using 2018 guidelines; 12 patients with missing federal poverty level (July: 9 text, 3 live call) were omitted.