Colorectal Cancer Screening Language is a Greater Barrier for Latino Men than Latino Women

• Published in: Journal of immigrant and minority health Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 472 - 475
• Main Authors: Diaz, J. A., Roberts, M. B., Clarke, J. G., Simmons, E. M., Goldman, R. E., Rakowski, W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer Science + Business Media 01.06.2013; Springer US; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acculturation; African Americans; Aged; Black people; Cancer; Colorectal cancer; Colorectal carcinoma; Colorectal Neoplasms - diagnosis; Communication Barriers; Comparative Law; Confidence Intervals; Early Detection of Cancer; Ethnicity; Female; Gender; Health Care Surveys; Healthcare Disparities; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic people; Humans; International & Foreign Law; Language; Language proficiency; Latin American people; Male; Mass Screening - statistics & numerical data; Medical screening; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Men; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Mortality; Noncitizens; ORIGINAL PAPER; Overweight; Private International Law; Public Health; Screening; Screening Tests; Sex Factors; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; Studies; United States; Variables; White people; Women; United States > US; Screening; Disparities; Colon cancer; Hispanic/Latino
• ISSN: 1557-1912; 1557-1920
• DOI: 10.1007/s10903-012-9667-6

Colorectal cancer screening (CRC) disparities between non-Latino Whites and Latinos remain, and may have increased. The goal of this analysis was to examine the association between Latino race/ethnicity, gender, and English-proficiency and CRC screening. Analysis of the CDC’s BRFSS 2008 survey. We estimated crude and adjusted screening rates and odds ratios of respondents’ reported CRC test receipt stratified by self-reported Latino ethnicity, gender, and limited English proficiency (LEP) as determined by language of survey response (English vs Spanish). Of 99,883 respondents included in the study populations, LEP Latino men had the lowest adjusted screening rates (48.2 %) which were lower that all other Latinos subgroups including Latina women with LEP (56.2%). Compared to non-Latino White men, LEP Latino men were 0.47 times as likely to report receiving CRC screening tests (AOR 0.47; 95 % CI 0.35–0.63). Disparities in CRC screening are most dramatic for LEP Latino men.