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. 2022 Dec 24;21:21. doi: 10.1186/s12942-022-00320-5

Table 1.

Description of study variables and their spatial autocorrelation stratified by urban–rural context and overall census blocks

Variables Overall (n = 496) Urban Peri-urban Rural p-value
Mean (SD) Moran’s I Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
 Screening participation (%) 48.3 (9.90) 0.29 (< 0.001) 46.6 (7.54) 47.9 (6.57) 53.1 (6.16)  < 0.001
Spatial accessibility
 Travel distance to the closest mammography (in km) 1.53 (1.15) 0.57 (< 0.001) 0.98 (0.67) 1.29 (0.75) 2.30 (1.42)  < 0.001
 Density of GPsa 1.12 (1.27) 0.06 (0.01) 1.15 (1.64) 0.73 (0.84) 0.49 (0.77)  < 0.001
Traveling
 Traveling by car (%) 53.4 (20.5) 0.74 (< 0.001) 33.7 (10.1) 56.0 (10.0) 73.2 (8.84)  < 0.001
 With no transportation access (%) 3.08 (2.19) 0.49 (0.03) 3.40 (1.73) 3.08 (1.48) 3.71 (3.59) 0.13
Social cohesion
 Living alone in a household (%) 10.6 (3.95) 0.48 (< 0.001) 27.7 (9.27) 18.0 (5.45) 12.0 (5.20)  < 0.001
 Married (%) 41.9 (13.3) 0.54 (< 0.001) 31.1 (10.2) 42.2 (5.68) 51.3 (8.52)  < 0.001
Socioeconomic deprivation 0.49 (< 0.001)  < 0.001
 High deprivation [n (%)] 168 (33.9) 36 (21.81) 92 (56.79) 40 (23.81)
 Medium deprivation [n (%)] 164 (33.1) 63 (38.19) 40 (24.69) 60 (35.71)
 Low deprivation [n (%)] 163 (32.9) 66 (40.00) 30 (18.52) 68 (40.48)

CB census blocks, GP general practitioners, SD standard deviation

aPer 100 women invited to screen