Table 2. Knowledge and Attitudes Towards the Pap Test and HPV Before and After the Intervention.
| Question | Scale | Baseline Survey |
Final Survey |
P (McNemar’ stest) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Pap testing is a blood test
(N=159) |
True | 4 (2.5) | 4 (2.5) | |
| False | 145 (91.2) | 158 (97.5) | .56 | |
| Don’t know | 10 (6.3) | 0 | ||
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|
Post-menopausal women
need to have a Pap test (N=161) |
True | 146 (90.2) | 162 (100) | .05 |
| False | 4 (2.5) | 0 | ||
| Don’t know | 12 (7.4) | 0 | ||
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|
Only women who have many
partners need to get a Pap test (N=162) |
True | 8 (5.0) | 5 (3.1) | .26 |
| False | 153 (95.0) | 157 (96.9) | ||
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|
A Pap test can only detect
(advanced) (invasive) cervical cancer (n=161) |
True | 32 (19.9) | 32 (19.8) | .75 |
| False | 114 (70.8) | 128 (79.0) | ||
| Don’t know | 14 (8.7) | 2 (1.2) | ||
| Refused | 1(0.6) | 0 | ||
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|
I need a Pap test only when I
experience problems like pain or abnormal vaginal bleeding (n=162) |
True | 6 (3.7) | 5 (3.1) | .74 |
| False | 153 (94.4) | 156 (96.3) | ||
| Don’t know | 3 (1.9) | 1 (0.6) | ||
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|
It is too embarrassing to have
a Pap test (N=162) |
Strongly Agree | 6 (3.7) | 53 (32.7) | .0001 |
| Agree | 70 (43.2) | 107 (66.1) | ||
| Disagree | 81 (50.0) | 2 (1.2) | ||
| Strongly Disagree |
5 (3.1) | 0 | ||
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|
If cancer of the cervix is
detected early, a person is more likely to be cured (N=162) |
Strongly Agree | 54 (33.3) | 125 (77.2) | .0001 |
| Agree | 94 (58.0) | 37 (22.8) | ||
| Disagree | 10 (6.2) | 0 | ||
| Strongly Disagree |
4 (2.7) | 0 | ||
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|
A woman can usually tell if
she has HPV |
True | 23 (14.4) | 13 (8.0) | .01 |
| False | 101 (63.1) | 144 (88.9) | ||
| Don’t know | 34 (21.3) | 5 (3.1) | ||
| Refused | 2 (1.3) | 0 | ||
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|
Women who get the HPV
vaccine should continue to get Pap tests. |
Strongly Agree | 44 (27.3) | 124 (76.5) | .001 |
| Agree | 91 (56.5) | 37 (22.8) | ||
| Disagree | 13 (8.1) | 1 (0.6) | ||
| Strongly Disagree |
0 | 0 | ||
| Don’t know | 13 (8.1) | 0 | ||
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|
The HPV vaccine can
prevent cervical cancer |
Strongly Agree | 29 (18.2) | 102 (63.0) | .81 |
| Agree | 96 (60.4) | 42 (25.9) | ||
| Disagree | 12(7.6) | 13 (8.1) | ||
| Strongly Disagree |
22 (13.8) | 16 (9.9) | ||
| Don’t know | 0 | 2 (1.2) | ||
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|
I would get the HPV vaccine
if my doctor or nurse recommended it. |
Strongly Agree | 33 (20.6) | 106 (65.4) | <.0001 |
| Agree | 92 (57.5) | 52 (32.1) | ||
| Disagree | 23 (14.4) | 1 (0.6) | ||
| Strongly Disagree |
1 (0.6) | 0 | ||
| Don’t know | 11 (6.9) | 3 (1.9) | ||