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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Rural Health. 2019 Sep 16;36(3):307–315. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12399

Table 4.

Pattern of FIT return over a two-year period.

(FIT1 is FIT in first year, FIT2 is FIT in second year.)

All Participants
(n=568)		  
Automated
(n=285)		 Personal
(n=283)		 p-value
Both FIT1 and FIT2 NOT returned 171 (30.1) 86 (30.2) 85 (30.0) 0.84
Screening Ratio 95% Confidence Interval 1.03
(0.80– 1.32)
FIT1 returned, FIT2 not returned 175 (30.8) 86 (30.2) 89 (31.5) 0.68
Screening Ratio 95% Confidence Interval 1.05
(0.82– 1.35)
FIT1 not returned, FIT2 returned 23 (4.0) 9 (3.2) 14 (5.0) 0.30
Screening Ratio 95% Confidence Interval 1.53
(0.68– 3.47)
Both FIT1 and FIT2 returned 199 (35.0) 104 (36.5) 95 (33.6) 0.45
Screening Ratio 95% Confidence Interval 0.92
(0.73– 1.15)
*

Screening ratios and p-values control for age (in years), race (African American vs Caucasian and Hispanic), gender and literacy (limited vs adequate).