Can a gastric cancer risk survey identify high-risk patients for endoscopic screening? A pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A questionnaire that distinguishes how variability in gastric cancer prevalence is associated with ethnicity/birth country/immigration/cultural diet along with known risk factors may improve targeting populations for gastric cancer screening in the United States.

Methods

Existing literature was used to identify the item pool. Cluster analysis, focus groups, and cognitive interviewing were used to reduce collinear items and refine the questionnaire. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine which items distinguished gastric cancer cases from the primary care and community controls.

Results

The results of analysis of data from 40 cases and 100 controls (primary care = 47; community = 53) were used to reduce the 227 item pool to 12 items. After rankin

SUBMITTER: In H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5972059 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature