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Table 5 Fecal occult blood test completion by treatment, gender, and age category

From: Does access to a colorectal cancer screening website and/or a nurse-managed telephone help line provided to patients by their family physician increase fecal occult blood test uptake?: results from a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

 

Fecal occult blood test status1,2,3

 

Control group4

Intervention group5

TOTAL

 

Male

Female

Male

Female

Age group

No

Yes (%)

No

Yes (%)

No

Yes (%)

No

Yes (%)

No

Yes (%)

50 to 54

69

50 (42.0)

107

87 (44.9)

45

79 (63.7)

95

114 (54.6)

316

330 (51.1)

55 to 59

43

56 (56.6)

76

88 (53.7)

44

79 (64.2)

64

129 (66.8)

227

352 (60.8)

60 to 64

49

60 (55.1)

57

99 (63.5)

27

73 (73.0)

51

112 (68.7)

184

344 (65.2)

65 to 70

20

45 (69.2)

39

84 (68.3)

14

56 (80.0)

33

67 (67.0)

106

252 (70.4)

70+

14

32 (69.6)

27

62 (69.7)

18

33 (64.7)

13

59 (81.9)

72

186 (72.1)

TOTAL

195

243 (55.5)

306

420 (57.9)

148

320 (68.4)

256

481 (65.3)

905

1464 (61.8)

  1. 1Significant effect of treatment (p < 0.0001) and age (p < 0.0001); no gender or socioeconomic status effects (data not shown).
  2. 2Values represent number of patients with incomplete FOBT (No) and complete FOBT (Yes) status for males and females in the control and intervention treatment groups.
  3. 3Bracketed values represent the percentage of patients with complete FOBT status.
  4. 4Number of missing values due to unknown age or gender was 4 males and 5 females for control group.
  5. 5Number of missing values due to unknown age or gender was 6 males and 5 females for the intervention group.