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Table 1 Characteristics of participants stratified by the family history of cancer in the unmatched sample

From: Impact of family history of cancer on colorectal cancer screening: a propensity score-matched analysis from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)

Variable

Unweighted

Weighted

Total

N (%)

No FHC

N (%)

FHC

N (%)

p-value

Total

%

No FHC

%

FHC

%

p-value

Age, mean (SE)

56.93 (16.89)

56.09 (17.11)

57.26 (16.69)

0.0407

46.94 (0.87)

48.19 (0.51)

49.58 (0.29)

0.0162

Education

   

0.5652

   

0.7439

  <  = High school

1114 (23.15)

265 (23.72)

849 (22.97)

 

29.30

29.28

29.30

 

 Some college

1437 (29.86)

322 (28.83)

1115 (30.17)

 

40.21

42.27

39.53

 

 College graduate

1297 (26.95)

315 (28.20)

982 (26.57)

 

17.69

16.24

18.16

 

 Postgraduate

965 (20.05)

215 (19.25)

750 (20.29)

 

12.81

12.21

13.00

 

Gender

   

0.004

   

0.0353

 Female

2803 (58.47)

600 (53.81)

2203 (59.88)

 

51.28

46.67

52.79

 

 Male

1991 (41.53)

515 (46.19)

1476 (40.12)

 

48.72

53.33

47.21

 

Marital status

       

0.2934

 Married

2634 (54.76)

620 (55.56)

2014 (54.52)

0.2672

56.38

56.92

56.20

 

 Separated

1387 (28.84)

302 (27.06)

1085 (29.37)

 

13.85

12.27

14.36

 

 Single

789 (16.40)

194 (17.38)

595 (16.11)

 

29.77

30.81

29.44

 

Race

   

 < .0001

   

0.0002

 African Americans

704 (15.53)

188 (18.34)

516 (14.71)

 

12.51

15.61

11.52

 

 Caucasians

3409 (75.20)

681 (66.44)

2728 (77.77)

 

77.80

68.02

80.93

 

 Others

420 (9.27)

156 (15.22)

264 (7.53)

 

9.69

16.37

7.55

 

Sexual orientation

   

0.2180

   

0.2019

 Heterosexual

4359 (94.49)

1013 (95.30)

3346 (94.25)

 

93.76

95.51

93.19

 

 Homosexual

117 (2.54)

20 (1.88)

97 (2.73)

 

2.42

1.97

2.57

 

 Others

137 (2.97)

30 (2.82)

107 (3.01)

 

3.82

2.51

4.24

 

E-cigarette use

   

0.0281

   

0.0525

 Ever

640 (13.25)

128 (11.39)

512 (13.82)

 

19.31

14.98

20.73

 

 Never

4190 (86.75)

996 (88.61)

3194 (86.18)

 

80.70

85.02

79.27

 

Cigarette use

   

 < .0001

   

 < 0.0001

 Never

2971 (62.01)

756 (68.05)

2215 (60.19)

 

64.09

73.52

60.99

 

 Current

539 (11.25)

110 (9.90)

429 (11.66)

 

12.20

8.89

13.28

 

 Former

1281 (26.74)

245 (22.05)

1036 (28.15)

 

23.71

17.59

25.72

 

Colorectal cancer testing

   

 < 0.0001

   

0.0459

 Yes

2949 (61.94)

620 (56.36)

2329 (63.62)

 

47.19

42.30

48.79

 

 No

1812 (38.06)

480 (43.64)

1332 (36.38)

 

52.81

57.70

51.21

 
  1. SE standard error, N number of participants, % percent of participants, χ2 chi-square statistic; age is in years, FHC family history of cancer