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Table 2 Age, deprivation, screening attendance and participation in the Million Women Study

From: Comparison of various characteristics of women who do and do not attend for breast cancer screening

      

t-test – P value

     

Did not attend

 

Among

  

Attended screening

screening

Overall

screened

   

Million Women Study

  

MWS

    

Screened

participant

  
 

All eligible women

Total

Participant

Non-participant

Total

vs not

vs

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

screened

non-participant

Age

       

   49–54

353 (33)

284 (32)

195 (34)

89 (29)

69 (38)

  

   55–59

286 (27)

239 (27)

147 (26)

92 (29)

47 (26)

  

   60+

425 (44)

359 (41)

228 (40)

131 (42)

66 (46)

  

Mean age (95% CI)

57.4

57.5

57.4

57.7

57.1

0.4

0.3

 

(57.1–57.7)

(57.2–57.8)

(57.0–57.8)

(57.2–58.2)

(56.4–57.8)

  

Deprivation level*

       

   Least deprived

348 (33)

303 (35)

204 (36)

99 (32)

45 (25)

  

   Medium deprived

348 (33)

304 (35)

186 (33)

118 (38)

44 (25)

  

   Most deprived

351 (34)

263 (30)

170 (31)

93 (30)

88 (50)

  

Mean deprivation (95% CI)

0.42

0.22

0.20

0.26

1.41

< 0.0001

0.8

 

(0.21–0.63)

(-0.06–0.44)

(-0.09–0.48)

(-0.11–0.62)

(0.89–1.92)

  

Total†

1064 (100)

882 (83)

570 (54)

312 (29)

182 (17)

  
  1. CI, confidence interval. *Measured by Townsend score. A higher score corresponds to more deprivation. †Numbers do not always add up to total due to missing values.