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. 2023 Oct 16;35(2):e18. doi: 10.3802/jgo.2024.35.e18

Table 2. Compliance level with cervical cancer screening between 2007–2018.

Variables Total Compliance level (%)
None Irregular Regular
Age at year 2007 (yr) p<0.001
20–39 1,828 32.4 59.6 8.0
40–59 1,750 20.1 49.1 30.8
≥60 1,085 38.2 43.4 18.4
Household income/median income p<0.001
<50% (the poorest) 1,337 33.8 48.5 17.7
50 to <100% 1,593 28.8 53.4 17.8
100 to <150% 961 23.2 55.3 21.5
150 to <200% 408 27.7 50.7 21.6
≥200% (the richest) 364 30.5 50.3 19.2
Occupational class p<0.001
Never worked and others 2,712 30.7 50.4 18.9
Self-employed, entrepreneurs and farmers 233 23.2 52.4 24.4
Manual workers 144 33.3 54.9 11.8
Clerical, sales and service workers 538 22.5 53.0 24.5
Lower level professionals 585 27.4 54.4 18.2
Higher level professionals and managers (highest) 451 31.3 55.2 13.5
Place of residence p<0.001
Rural area 982 33.2 52.0 14.8
Small-medium cities 1,698 27.0 50.9 22.1
Metropolitan cities 1,983 28.8 52.6 18.6
Education level p<0.001
Elementary school graduate or less 1,387 31.9 46.7 21.3
Middle school graduate 461 22.1 46.4 31.5
High school graduate 1,484 27.1 53.8 19.1
College graduate or higher 1,331 30.8 57.0 12.2
Marital status p<0.001
Unmarried 523 51.1 47.0 1.9
Separated or divorced 808 37.0 44.8 18.2
Married 3,332 23.7 54.4 21.9
Type of public health insurance p=0.003
Medicaid 125 42.4 44.8 12.8
National health insurance, self-employed 1,713 30.4 51.5 18.1
National health insurance, employed 2,825 27.8 52.5 19.7
Private health insurance p<0.001
Not having 1,424 39.1 45.6 15.2
Having 3,239 24.7 54.6 20.7
Disabled person p=0.005
Disabled 386 36.3 45.9 17.9
Non-disabled 4,277 28.5 52.4 19.1
Services through local public health organization p=0.495
Not having 4,469 29.1 52.0 18.9
Having 194 28.9 49.0 22.1
History of all cancer except cervical cancer p=0.001
Not having 3,748 29.9 52.1 18.0
Having 915 25.9 51.1 23.0
Family history of cervical cancer p<0.001
Not having 4,372 30.4 51.6 18.0
Having 291 10.3 55.7 34.0
Carcinoma in situ or dysplasia of female genital organs p=0.015
Not having 4,106 29.6 51.9 18.5
Having 557 25.3 51.7 23.0
Benign neoplasm of female genital organs p=0.029
Not having 4,373 29.1 52.3 18.6
Having 290 29.7 45.9 24.4
Infectious diseases of female genital organs p<0.001
Not having 3,222 29.8 52.6 17.6
Having 1,441 27.5 50.2 22.3
Pregnancy p=0.111
Not having 4,300 28.8 52.0 19.3
Having 363 33.1 51.2 15.7
Times of having general mass screening p<0.001
None 827 76.2 23.0 0.8
1–3 1,706 30.1 66.5 3.4
4–6 1,733 9.6 51.9 38.5
≥7 397 12.1 48.4 38.5