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Preferred a home-based stool testa
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Preferred colonoscopy
|
|---|
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% (n = 298)
|
[95 % CI]
|
% (n = 152)
|
[95 % CI]
|
|---|
|
Reason for preferenceb
| | | | |
|
More frequent
|
62.1 (185)
|
[56.5, 67.4]
|
21.7 (33)
|
[15.9, 28.9]
|
|
More convenient
|
51.7 (154)
|
[46.0, 57.3]
|
12.5 (19)
|
[8.2, 18.7]
|
|
Less likely to cause side-effects
|
39.9 (119)
|
[34.5, 45.6]
|
7.2 (11)
|
[4.1, 12.5]
|
|
Less likely to harm me
|
32.6 (97)
|
[27.5, 38.1]
|
5.9 (9)
|
[3.2, 10.9]
|
|
Better at finding polyps or cancer
|
28.9 (86)
|
[24.0, 34.3]
|
77.6 (118)
|
[70.4, 83.5]
|
|
More thorough
|
21.5 (64)
|
[17.2, 26.5]
|
53.9 (82)
|
[46.0, 61.7]
|
|
More familiar as I would have had the test before
|
16.8 (50)
|
[13.0, 21.4]
|
29.6 (45)
|
[22.9, 37.3]
|
|
Better at showing what is happening during the test
|
6.4 (19)
|
[4.1, 9.8]
|
17.8 (27)
|
[12.5, 24.6]
|
|
Other reasons
|
7.0 (21)
|
[4.5, 10.7]
|
3.3 (5)
|
[1.4, 7.5]
|
- aThe home-based stool test was comparable to FIT
- bN.B participants could select more than one reason
