Having a Personal Health Care Provider and Receipt of Colorectal Cancer Testing

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Table 1.

Population Characteristics, 2004 United States BRFSS

Variables	1 PHP (n=116,349)^a	>1 PHP (n=15,087)	No PHP (n=13,461)	P Value	Total (N=144,897)
BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; PHP = personal health care provider.
Note: χ² Statistics and analyses of variance were used for categorical and continuous variables, respectively.
^a Percentages in this column are weighted.
^b Up-to-date colorectal cancer testing defined as fecal occult blood test within the last 1 year or sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy in the past 10 years.
Age, mean (SD), y	64.7 (10.5)	66.2 (10.6)	61.6 (9.9)	<.001	4.6 (10.5)
Sex, %				<.001
Female	55.8	54.3	43.6		54.5
Male	44.2	45.7	56.4		45.5
Race/ethnicity, %				<.001
Non-Hispanic white	80.2	77.3	65.6		78.5
Non-Hispanic African American	8.0	8.6	10.2		8.3
Non-Hispanic Other	3.0	3.2	3.9		3.1
Non-Hispanic multiracial	1.2	1.7	1.5		1.2
Hispanic	7.6	9.1	18.8		8.8
Education level, %				<.001
Not graduate high school	12.4	15.2	21.8		13.5
High school graduate or greater	87.6	84.8	78.2		86.5
Income, %				<.001
<$25,000	30.6	35.7	47.2		32.7
≥$25,000	69.4	64.3	52.8		67.3
Health Insurance, %				<.001
Yes	94.6	95.2	67.1		92.1
No	5.4	4.8	32.9		7.9
Up-to-date colorectal cancer testing,^b %				<.001
Yes	59.3	62.5	26.9		56.6
No	40.7	37.5	73.1		43.4

Table 2.

Logistic Regression Analyses of Predictors of Up-to-Date Colorectal Cancer Testing (2004 United States BRFSS)

	Unadjusted		Adjusted
	N=144,897		n=120,221^a
Variables	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio.
Note: Up-to-date colorectal cancer testing defined as fecal occult blood test within the last 1 year or, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy in the past 10 years.
^a Based on missing data for the entire adjusted model.
Personal health care provider
None (reference group)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
1	3.96	3.56–4.41	2.91	2.58–3.28
More than 1	4.52	3.96–5.16	3.26	2.80–3.79
Age	1.04	1.03–1.04	1.04	1.04–1.04
Sex
Female (reference group)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Male	1.04	0.99–1.10	1.13	1.06–1.20
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white (reference group)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Non-Hispanic African American	0.85	0.77–0.95	1.17	1.04–1.32
Non-Hispanic other	0.58	0.47–0.72	0.71	0.57–0.90
Non-Hispanic multiracial	0.89	0.68–1.16	1.14	0.85–1.55
Hispanic	0.51	0.44–0.58	0.75	0.64–0.88
Education level
High school or greater (reference group)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Not graduate high school	0.61	0.56–0.67	0.72	0.65–0.81
Income
≥$25,000 (reference group)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
<$25,000	0.70	0.66–0.74	0.69	0.64–0.74
Health Insurance
No (reference group)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yes	3.49	3.13–3.89	1.84	1.62–2.08