Table 4.
Association of Physician Gender and Cervical Cancer Prevention Attitudes and Practices
| Item | Percent Distribution
|
P Value* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | ||
| Pap smear <20 y old | <.005 | ||
| Every year | 84.5 | 71.5 | |
| Every 2 y | 5.3 | 8.0 | |
| Every 3 y | 2.4 | 5.0 | |
| Do not recommend | 7.7 | 15.5 | |
| Pap smear 20–49 y | .463 | ||
| Every year | 88.3 | 87.3 | |
| Every 2 y | 8.9 | 7.9 | |
| Every 3 y | 2.8 | 4.8 | |
| Do not recommend | 0 | 0 | |
| Pap smear 50–64 y | .273 | ||
| Every year | 73.1 | 72.5 | |
| Every 2 y | 19.8 | 16.9 | |
| Every 3 y | 7.1 | 10.6 | |
| Do not recommend | 0 | 0 | |
| Pap smear 65–79 y | .920 | ||
| Every year | 34.6 | 34.3 | |
| Every 2 y | 30.8 | 29.3 | |
| Every 3 y | 28.0 | 30.3 | |
| Do not recommend | 6.6 | 6.0 | |
| Pap smear 80+ y | .560 | ||
| Every year | 17.5 | 20.4 | |
| Every 2 y | 13.3 | 16.0 | |
| Every 3 y | 26.1 | 23.4 | |
| Do not recommend | 43.1 | 40.2 | |
| Pap smear effective | .429 | ||
| Extremely/very effective | 86.0 | 81.3 | |
| Quite effective | 12.1 | 16.4 | |
| Somewhat effective | 1.9 | 2.1 | |
| A little/not effective at all | 0 | 0.2 | |
*
Two-sided P value from χ2 tests for comparison of proportions.
Bold indicates p < 0.05.