Table 4.
Beliefs related to breast cancer screening adherence and educational levels in a sample of Iranian Turkmen women.
| Beliefs | Educational levels |
F | Tukey's HSDa | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A (n = 397) | B (n = 352) | C (n = 131) | D (n = 41) | E (n = 104) | F (n = 49) | |||
| Susceptibility | 2.66 ± 1.11 | 2.91 ± 1.20 | 2.78 ± .95 | 2.69 ± .96 | 3.07 ± 1.10 | 3.25 ± .95 | 4.805 | A, B < C, D, E, F C, D, E < F |
| Seriousness | 3.74 ± .73 | 3.82 ± .66 |
3.66 ± .67 | 3.65 ± .59 | 3.55 ± .75 | 3.57 ± .73 | 3.397 | N.S |
| Fatalism | 4.02 ± .68 | 3.96 ± .76 | 3.79 ± .69 | 3.45 ± .94 | 3.49 ± .89 | 3.26 ± .87 |
18.650 | F, E, D < C, B, A, C < B, A |
A: illiterate; B: less than 5 years; C: 6–8 years; D: 9–11 years; E: high school graduate; F: college level.
aMean differences for the Tukey's HSD pairwise comparisons (P < .05).