Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence in a General Population

Background: This article describes the self-reported colorectal cancer (CRC) screening adherence rates of adults, aged 50 years and older, living in five nonurban Minnesota counties. Methods: During the year 2000, 1693 eligible respondents, aged 50 years and older, from a randomly selected sample co...

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Published in:Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention biomarkers & prevention, 2004-04, Vol.13 (4), p.654-657
Main Authors: YEAZEL, Mark W, CHURCH, Timothy R, JONES, Resa M, KOCHEVAR, Laura K, WATT, Gavin D, CORDES, Jill E, ENGELHARD, Deborah, MONGIN, Steven J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Barium
Biological and medical sciences
Colonoscopy - utilization
Colorectal Neoplasms - epidemiology
Colorectal Neoplasms - etiology
Colorectal Neoplasms - prevention & control
Female
Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen
Humans
Male
Mass Screening - methods
Mass Screening - utilization
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Minnesota - epidemiology
Occult Blood
Patient Compliance - statistics & numerical data
Sigmoidoscopy - utilization
Stomach. Duodenum. Small intestine. Colon. Rectum. Anus
Surveys and Questionnaires
Tumors
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Summary:Background: This article describes the self-reported colorectal cancer (CRC) screening adherence rates of adults, aged 50 years and older, living in five nonurban Minnesota counties. Methods: During the year 2000, 1693 eligible respondents, aged 50 years and older, from a randomly selected sample completed a survey assessing CRC screening adherence (∼86.3% response). The survey allowed differentiation between the four CRC screening modalities but did not differentiate between screening and diagnostic testing. Adjustment for nonresponse was performed using a version of Horvitz-Thompson weighting accounting for unknown eligibility. Results: 24.5% of respondents had a fecal occult blood test within 1 year of the survey, 33.8% had flexible sigmoidoscopy within 5 years, 29.3% had a colonoscopy within 10 years, and 13.7% had a barium enema within the last 5 years. Overall, 55.3% of respondents reported testing by any modality; thus, 44.7% were not adherent to screening guidelines. Conclusions: This study improves on previous attempts to characterize CRC screening adherence by assessing all four modalities of screening as recommended by current screening guidelines, by focusing on nonadherence, and by rigorously accounting for nonresponse. This study confirms that nearly half of the population remains unscreened by any method.
ISSN:1055-9965
1538-7755
DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.654.13.4