Table 4 Predictors associated with recommending FOBT screening (Unweighted n, Weighted %)
From: Perceptions of colorectal cancer screening and recommendation behaviors among physicians in Korea
Characteristics | FOBT* (n = 27) | Colonoscopy (n = 297) | FOBT* vs. Colonoscopy |
|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | aOR (95% CI) | |
Group | |||
Primary care physicians | 21 (86.6) | 174 (70.5) | Reference |
KASID§ physicians | 6 (13.4) | 123 (29.5) | 0.28 (0.07–1.14) |
Gender | |||
Male | 20 (73.0) | 256 (87.9) | Reference |
Female | 7 (27.0) | 41 (12.1) | 2.82 (0.59–13.59) |
Age, years | |||
30–39 | 7 (18.0) | 80 (20.8) | Reference |
40–49 | 10 (37.4) | 146 (50.4) | 1.14 (0.23–5.71) |
≥ 50 | 10 (44.6) | 71 (28.7) | 1.19 (0.10–14.34) |
P for trend | 0.238 | ||
Year of graduation, Medical school | |||
< 1990 | 9 (37.5) | 70 (28.4) | Reference |
1990–1999 | 9 (35.2) | 139 (49.1) | 1.27 (0.18–9.18) |
≥ 2000 | 9 (27.3) | 86 (22.6) | 1.16 (0.10–13.60) |
P for trend | 0.060 | ||
Specialty | |||
Internal medicine | 21 (72.1) | 260 (85.7) | Reference |
Others | 6 (27.9) | 37 (14.3) | 1.57 (0.35–6.98) |
Patients per day | |||
< 25 | 4 (9.8) | 32 (8.9) | Reference |
25–49 | 4 (13.7) | 89 (27.6) | 0.48 (0.06–3.99) |
50–99 | 15 (59.7) | 144 (51.4) | 0.96 (0.15–6.26) |
≥ 100 | 4 (16.9) | 32 (12.1) | 1.02 (0.07–14.50) |
P for trend | 0.603 | ||
Knowledge scores, mean (SE ξ) | 3.77 (0.22) | 4.01 (0.06) | 0.57 (0.34–0.95) |
Belief scores, mean (SE ξ) | |||
FOBT | 2.16 (0.19) | 0.82 (0.07) | 3.70 (2.09–6.57) |
Colonoscopy | 2.42 (0.19) | 2.83 (0.03) | 0.29 (0.12–0.69) |
Decisional balance scores, mean (SEξ) | |||
FOBT | 4.06 (0.87) | 0.48 (0.27) | 1.12 (0.99–1.26) |
Colonoscopy | 0.20 (1.08) | 3.71 (0.23) | 0.82 (0.71–0.95) |