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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Midwifery Womens Health. 2011 Aug 1;56(5):481–487. doi: 10.1111/j.1542-2011.2011.00040.x

Table 1.

Characteristics of Participants (N=85) Recruited from Private Clinic Compared to Resident Clinic Add overall sample column

Variable Total (n=85) Private (n=39) Resident (n=46) P Value
Demographics
  Age, mean (SD) 23 (2.16) 24 (2.0) 22 (2.3) 0.02
  Race/Ethnicity, n(%)
    Black 33 (38.8) 6 (15.4) 27 (58.7) <.0001
    Hispanic 18 (21.2) 1 (2.6) 17 (37.0)
    White, non-Hispanic, and other 34 (40.0) 32 (82.1) 2 (4.3)
  Zip Code Poverty Prevalence, n(%)
    <20% 59 (69.4) 35 (89.7) 24 (52.2) <.0001
    >=20% 26 (30.6) 4 (10.3) 22 (47.8)
  Educational Attainment, n(%)
    1 or more years of college 68 (80.0) 39 (100) 29 (63.0) <.0001
    No college 17 (20.0) 0 17 (37.0)
  Parental Educational Attainment, n(%)
    1 or more years of college 54 (63.5) 34 (87.2) 20 (43.5) <.0001
    No college 31 (36.5) 5 (12.8) 26 (56.5)
  Insurance type, n(%)
    Private insurance 42 (49.4) 39 (100) 3 (6.5) <.0001
    Medicaid or public insurance 43 (50.5) 0 43 (93.5)
  Do you have children? n(%)
    Yes 41 (48.2) 0 41 (89.1) <.0001
    No 44 (51.8) 39 (100) 5 (10.9)
  Today you received: n(%)
    First HPV vaccine shot 53 (62.4) 13 (33.3) 40 (87.0) <.0001
    Second or third shot 32 (37.6) 26 (66.7) 6 (13.0)

Sexual and Screening Behaviors
  Condom Use, n(%)
    Always using condoms or never had intercourse 18 (21.2) 11 (28.2) 7 (15.2) 0.14
    Sometimes or never use condoms 67 (78.8) 28 (71.8) 39 (84.8)
  Have a regular sexual partnera n(%)
    Yes 72 (85.7) 30 (76.9) 42 (91.3) 0.15
    No 12 (14.3) 8 (20.5) 4 (8.7)
  History of Abnormal Pap Smeara n(%)
    Yes 30 (35.7) 14 (35.9) 16 (34.8) 0.65
    No 54 (64.3) 25 (64.1) 29 (63.0)
Had a Pap Smear within past year n(%) 52 (61.2) 36 (92.3) 36 (78.3) 0.07

Knowledge about HPV, cervical cancer, and the vaccineb mean (SD) 22.1 (3.88) 24.9 (3.6) 19.7 (4.1) <.0001
a

One participant did not respond

b

Knowledge score is number of answers correct out of 33 answers.