Barriers to colorectal cancer screening: A case-control study

Table 2 Differences by gender in association of occupation and willingness to attend a colorectal screening program

	OR1 (95% CI)1			OR2 (95% CI)1			OR3 (95% CI)1
	Together2	Male	Female	Together2	Male	Female	Together2	Male	Female
Occupation
Worker	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Official/administrator	3.42 (0.64-18.36)	4.13 (0.55-31.26)	-	1.21 (0.30-4.92)	3.40 (0.49-23.65)	0.50 (0.05-4.67)	2.83 (0.73-10.90)	1.22 (0.25-5.87)	-
Technician/professional	2.99 (0.96-9.32)	15.5 (2.34-102.85)	0.81 (0.15-4.51)	4.24 (1.27-14.11)	6.80 (1.44-32.20)	5.00 (0.42-59.66)	0.71 (0.23-2.15)	2.28 (0.41-12.61)	0.16 (0.02-1.42)
Businessman	2.49 (0.88-7.07)	12.4 (2.32-66.35)	0.61 (0.11-3.22)	2.64 (0.93-7.49)	8.16 (1.80-37.06)	0.83 (0.15-4.64)	0.94 (0.38-2.32)	1.52 (0.34-6.89)	0.73 (0.23-2.32)
Other	2.18 (1.17-4.06)	5.8 (1.99-16.94)	1.06 (0.47-2.38)	1.51 (0.82-2.77)	3.94 (1.39-11.21)	0.74 (0.33-1.63)	1.44 (0.93-2.25)	1.47 (0.76-2.85)	1.44 (0.79-2.62)
Gender
Male	1.00			1.00			1.00
Female	0.62 (0.37-1.04)			0.71 (0.43-1.17)			0.87 (0.58-1.32)
P for heterogeneity	0.009			0.01			0.80

¹OR1: Odds ratio for case versus control 1; OR2: Odds ratio for case versus control 2; OR3: Odds ratio for comparison between two control groups; 95% CI means 95% confidence interval.

²OR’s in all means only occupation and gender factors were single in the models, or called a single OR.