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Table 4 Improvement in prompted symptom awareness by socio-demographic characteristics and recognition of BCAC-CRC advertisements (binary logistic regression)

From: Change in public awareness of colorectal cancer symptoms following the Be Cancer Alert Campaign in the multi-ethnic population of Malaysia

 

n/d (%)

OR (95% CI)

(unadjusted)

P

OR (95% CI)

(adjusted)a

P

Age

 40–49 years

137/227 (60.4)

Reference

0.308

Reference

0.075

 50–59 years

138/265 (52.1)

0.71 (0.50, 1.02)

0.066

0.71 (0.47, 1.06)

0.095

 60–69 years

101/176 (57.4)

0.89 (0.59, 1.32)

0.548

1.26 (0.76, 2.09)

0.369

 ≥ 70 years

32/59 (54.2)

0.78 (0.44, 1.39)

0.395

1.19 (0.56, 2.50)

0.652

Gender

 Male

140/ 255 (54.9)

Reference

 

Reference

 

 Female

269/475 (56.6)

1.08 (0.79, 1.46)

0.631

1.21 (0.83, 1.77)

0.326

Ethnicity

 Malay

241/410 (58.8)

Reference

0.169

Reference

0.031

 Chinese

42/73 (57.5)

0.95 (0.57, 1.57)

0.842

1.07 (0.58, 1.97)

0.841

 Indian

101/204 (49.5)

0.69 (0.49, 0.96)

0.030

0.53 (0.34, 0.83)

0.005

 Others

25/42 (59.5)

1.03 (0.54, 1.87)

0.926

1.03 (0.49, 2.17)

0.937

Marital Status

 Married

332/596 (55.8)

Reference

 

Reference

 

 Single

77/133 (57.9)

1.09 (0.75, 1.59)

0.660

1.12 (0.70, 1.81)

0.639

Education

 No formal education

69/123 (56.1)

Reference

0.208

Reference

0.135

 Primary

71/143 (49.7)

0.77 (0.48, 1.25)

0.294

0.66 (0.37, 1.18)

0.162

 Secondary

224/378 (59.3)

1.14 (0.76, 1.72)

0.537

1.11 (0.66, 1.87)

0.701

 Tertiary

43/83 (51.8)

0.84 (0.48, 1.47)

0.544

0.81 (0.39, 1.68)

0.562

Monthly family income

 < RM 4000

293/511 (57.3)

Reference

0.558

Reference

0.627

 RM 4000–10,000

49/87 (56.3)

0.96 (0.61, 1.52)

0.859

0.94 (0.56, 1.57)

0.798

 RM > 10,000

8/18 (44.4)

0.60 (0.23, 1.53)

0.282

0.60 (0.21, 1.70)

0.336

CRC history

 

 No

356/633 (56.2)

Reference

 

Reference

 

 Yes

48/88 (54.5)

0.93 (0.60, 1.46)

0.764

0.83 (0.50, 1.38)

0.468

CRC screening history

 No

378/660 (57.3)

Reference

 

Reference

 

 Yes

31/69 (44.9)

0.61 (0.37, 1.00)

0.051

0.68 (0.37, 1.24)

0.206

TV ad recognition

 No

229/417 (54.9)

Reference

 

Reference

 

 Yes

180/312 (57.7)

1.12 (0.83, 1.51)

0.455

0.80 (0.56, 1.15)

0.232

Radio ad recognition

 No

322/596 (54.0)

Reference

 

Reference

 

 Yes

87/133 (65.4)

1.61 (1.09, 2.38)

0.017

2.19 (1.33, 3.62)

0.002

Print ad recognition

 No

223/437 (51.0)

Reference

 

Reference

 

 Yes

186/292 (63.7)

1.68 (1.24, 2.28)

0.001

1.80 (1.27, 2.56)

0.001

  1. n number of participants improved their prompted symptom awareness by one or more symptoms divided by the total number of survey participants (d denominator)
  2. Ad Advertisement, CI Confidence interval, n Number of participants, OR Odds ratio, RM Malaysian Ringgit, TV Television
  3. a Adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, education, monthly family income, TV ad recognition, radio ad recognition, print ad recognition, CRC history, CRC screening