Influencing factors for colonoscopic compliance to colorectal cancer screening in outpatients

Objective To explore the influencing factors for compliance to colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer in outpatients.Methods Patients aged 40-74 years who visited the outpatient gastroenterology department of 7 tertiary hospitals in 7 regions of Xinjiang from January 2022 to June 2022 were enrolled.Recommendations for colonoscopy screening were made according to the patient's medical conditions,and the questionnaire was used to collect information.The Chi-square test was used to compare the differences of compliant and noncompliant patients.Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze the influencing factors of compliance to colonoscopy screening.Results A total of 463 valid questionnaires were obtained from 7 centers,in which,427 outpatients(92.2%)followed the recommendation for colonoscopy screening,and 36(7.8%)did not.Chisquare test results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in gender,age,education,subjective cognition of intestinal polyps,personal history of colorectal polyps,family history of colorectal cancer,family history of colorectal polyps。