PURPOSE: To determine the return rate of community-delivered fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kits in a rural population and to identify significant predictors of returning kits. METHODS: Residents were recruited in 8 rural Kentucky counties to enroll in the study and receive an FIT kit. Of 345 recruited, 82.0% returned an FIT kit from the point of distribution. These participants were compared to the remainder relative to age, sex, marital status, having an annual income below $15,000, not graduating from high school, not having a regular health care provider, not having health care coverage, being a current smoker, indicating current overweight or obese status, and a scale measure of fatalism pertaining to colorectal cancer. Predictors achieving significance at the bivariate level were entered into a stepwise logistic regression model to calculate adjusted OR and 95% CI. FINDINGS: The return rate was 82.0%. In adjusted analyses, those indicating an annual income of less than $15,000 were 2.85 times more likely to return their kits (95% CI: 1.56-5.24; P < .001). Also, those not perceiving themselves to be overweight/obese were 1.95 times more likely to return their kits (95% CI: 1.07-3.55; P = .029). CONCLUSIONS: An outreach-based colorectal cancer screening program in a rural population may yield high return rates. People with annual incomes below $15,000 and those not having perceptions of being overweight/obese may be particularly likely to return FIT kits.
PURPOSE: To determine the return rate of community-delivered fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kits in a rural population and to identify significant predictors of returning kits. METHODS: Residents were recruited in 8 rural Kentucky counties to enroll in the study and receive an FIT kit. Of 345 recruited, 82.0% returned an FIT kit from the point of distribution. These participants were compared to the remainder relative to age, sex, marital status, having an annual income below $15,000, not graduating from high school, not having a regular health care provider, not having health care coverage, being a current smoker, indicating current overweight or obese status, and a scale measure of fatalism pertaining to colorectal cancer. Predictors achieving significance at the bivariate level were entered into a stepwise logistic regression model to calculate adjusted OR and 95% CI. FINDINGS: The return rate was 82.0%. In adjusted analyses, those indicating an annual income of less than $15,000 were 2.85 times more likely to return their kits (95% CI: 1.56-5.24; P < .001). Also, those not perceiving themselves to be overweight/obese were 1.95 times more likely to return their kits (95% CI: 1.07-3.55; P = .029). CONCLUSIONS: An outreach-based colorectal cancer screening program in a rural population may yield high return rates. People with annual incomes below $15,000 and those not having perceptions of being overweight/obese may be particularly likely to return FIT kits.
Authors: A R Hart; T L Barone; S P Gay; A Inglis; L Griffin; C A Tallon; J F Mayberry Journal: J Epidemiol Community Health Date: 1997-04 Impact factor: 3.710
Authors: Judith M E Walsh; Leah Karliner; Nancy Burke; Carol P Somkin; Linda A Pham; Rena Pasick Journal: J Cancer Educ Date: 2010-03-05 Impact factor: 2.037
Authors: Ronald E Myers; Randa Sifri; Terry Hyslop; Michael Rosenthal; Sally W Vernon; James Cocroft; Thomas Wolf; Jocelyn Andrel; Richard Wender Journal: Cancer Date: 2007-11-01 Impact factor: 6.860
Authors: Michael Pignone; Melissa Rich; Steven M Teutsch; Alfred O Berg; Kathleen N Lohr Journal: Ann Intern Med Date: 2002-07-16 Impact factor: 25.391
Authors: Bernard Levin; David A Lieberman; Beth McFarland; Robert A Smith; Durado Brooks; Kimberly S Andrews; Chiranjeev Dash; Francis M Giardiello; Seth Glick; Theodore R Levin; Perry Pickhardt; Douglas K Rex; Alan Thorson; Sidney J Winawer Journal: CA Cancer J Clin Date: 2008-03-05 Impact factor: 508.702
Authors: Jan M Eberth; Michele J Josey; Lee R Mobley; Davidson O Nicholas; Donna B Jeffe; Cassie Odahowski; Janice C Probst; Mario Schootman Journal: J Rural Health Date: 2017-11-16 Impact factor: 4.333
Authors: Lailea Noel; Farya Phillips; Katherine Tossas-Milligan; Krista Spear; Nathan L Vanderford; Robert A Winn; Robin C Vanderpool; S Gail Eckhardt Journal: Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book Date: 2019-05-17
Authors: Electra D Paskett; Mark Dignan; Aaron J Kruse-Diehr; Jill M Oliveri; Robin C Vanderpool; Mira L Katz; Paul L Reiter; Darrell M Gray; Michael L Pennell; Gregory S Young; Bin Huang; Darla Fickle; Mark Cromo; Melinda Rogers; David Gross; Ashley Gibson; Jeanne Jellison; Michael D Sarap; Tonia A Bivens; Tracy D McGuire; Ann Scheck McAlearney; Timothy R Huerta; Saurabh Rahurkar Journal: Implement Sci Commun Date: 2021-05-19
Authors: Jan M Eberth; Whitney E Zahnd; Michele J Josey; Mario Schootman; Peiyin Hung; Janice C Probst Journal: Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol Date: 2021-03-06
Authors: Todd Lucas; Hayley S Thompson; James Blessman; Anurag Dawadi; Caroline E Drolet; Kelly A Hirko; Louis A Penner Journal: Health Psychol Date: 2021-05 Impact factor: 4.267
Authors: Sanjay Shete; Yangyang Deng; Jackilen Shannon; Babalola Faseru; Deirdre Middleton; Ronaldo Iachan; Brittany Bernardo; Rajesh Balkrishnan; Sunny Jung Kim; Bin Huang; Morgan M Millar; Bernard Fuemmler; Jakob D Jensen; Jason A Mendoza; Jinxiang Hu; DeAnn Lazovich; Linda Robertson; Wendy Demark-Wahnefried; Electra D Paskett Journal: JAMA Netw Open Date: 2021-10-01
Authors: Yi Guo; Sarah M Szurek; Jiang Bian; Dejana Braithwaite; Jonathan D Licht; Elizabeth A Shenkman Journal: Cancer Med Date: 2021-07-13 Impact factor: 4.711