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. 2014 Jun 12;14:596. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-596

Table 3.

Women’s opinions on future aids needed to facilitate self-collection of vaginal sample (number, percent)

  All sites (N* = 3,195) Rural Uttar Pradesh (N* = 917) Hyderabad (N* = 863) Nicaragua (N* = 705) Uganda (N* = 710) P value
Aids needed to ease self-collection in the future†
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Staff help
1,679 (52.6)
479 (52.2)
496 (57.5)
311 (44.1)
393 (55.4)
<0.001
  More pictures
977 (30.6)
277 (30.2)
415 (48.1)
119 (16.9)
166 (23.4)
<0.001
  Doll/model
828 (25.9)
130 (14.2)
399 (46.2)
35 (5.0)
264 (37.2)
<0.001
  None 710 (22.2) 39 (4.3) 154 (17.8) 252 (35.7) 265 (37.3) <0.001

*Sample size’s are based on how many women answered the question; Of the total number of women ((All sites (N = 3,863); Rural Uttar Pradesh (N = 942); Hyderabad (N = 1,160); Nicaragua (N = 850) and Uganda (N = 911)), women that did not answer the question were excluded (All sites (N = 181); Rural Uttar Pradesh (N = 21); Hyderabad (N = 0); Nicaragua (N = 139) and Uganda (N = 21)), and women that checked more than one response were accounted for (All sites (N = 487); Rural Uttar Pradesh (N = 4); Hyderabad (N = 297); Nicaragua (N = 6) and Uganda (N = 162)).

Categories are not mutually exclusive; Women could select more than one response category.

P value comparing the distribution among study sites.