title: Healthy Colon, Healthy Life (Ruot Lành, Song Khoe): patient and physician factors associated with colorectal cancer screening among Vietnamese Americans in a county medical care system.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine factors associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among Vietnamese Americans.
  
  
  METHODS
  Telephone survey of Vietnamese aged 50-79 receiving primary care at participating clinics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 808 participants, 53% were up to date (UTD) with fecal occult blood test (FOBT), 19% were UTD with sigmoidoscopy, 28% were UTD with colonoscopy. Females were more likely to be UTD with FOBT (OR 1.4, 95% CI 1.02, 1.93). Individuals in the U.S. for less than 15 years were less likely than others to be UTD with any CRC screening (OR 0.65, 95% CI 0.44, 0.96). Patients of female physicians were more likely to be UTD with sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy (OR 1.72, 95% CI 1.15, 2.57). Ethnicity and language concordance were not associated with screening.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Many Vietnamese people are not receiving CRC screening. Women and patients of female physicians receive more screening.
authors.affiliation: Women's Health Clinical Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: Tung
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Lamkieu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Rena
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pasick
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: McPhee
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001364:Awareness; D003113:Colonoscopy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010361:Patients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012067:Religion; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology