Table 3.

Correlation coefficients of HPV knowledge score among women with children 9 – 17 years of age^a

	Correlation coefficient	p-value
Demographic characteristics
Age	0.12	0.01
Born in U.S.	0.08	0.08
Hispanic	−0.06	0.21
Black	−0.02	0.72
Married or cohabitating	0.03	0.54
Separated, divorced, or widowed	0.06	0.18
High school grad or GED	−0.001	0.99
College grad or some college	0.24	<0.001
Combined annual household income between $15,000 to $29,999	−0.001	0.99
Combined annual household income $30,000 and above	0.18	<0.001
Has health insurance	0.06	0.23
Has daughter(s) only	0.02	0.75
Has both son(s) and daughter(s)	−0.06	0.21
Behavioral characteristics
One or more hours spent on internet daily	0.18	<0.001
Exercise at least one day per week	0.11	0.02
Current smoker	0.02	0.73
Current drinker	0.06	0.21
Weekly attendance at religious services	0.03	0.57
Used some form of birth control at last sex	−0.03	0.54
Age at first sexual intercourse 14 years or under	0.000	1.00
Five or more lifetime sex partners	0.11	0.02
One or more Pap tests in the past 2 years	0.01	0.86
HPV-related characteristics
Ever diagnosed with HPV, abnormal Pap, cervical dysplasia, or cervical cancer	0.15	0.002
Has family or friends who had child vaccinated against HPV	0.14	0.002
Health care provider recommended Guardasil one or more times	0.21	<0.001
Two or more sources of information regarding HPV	0.10	0.04
Known someone with HPV or cervical cancer	0.25	<0.001
Ever heard of HPV in high school or college	0.14	0.003
Ever seen an ad about Guardasil on TV or in a magazine	0.36	<0.001
Ever seen a brochure about Guardasil	0.40	<0.001

^aAll coefficients are Point-Biserial Correlations except age, which is a Pearson Product Moment Correlation.