Table 1.
Women’s knowledge and regularity of screening among those who ever heard about cervical cancer
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| Variable | Levels | Urban | Rural | ||
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| Knowledge on disease and screening (N=318) | Low-Medium | 172 | 59.3 | 23 | 82.1 |
| Medium | 118 | 40.7 | 5 | 17.9 | |
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| Total | 290 | 100 | 28 | 100 | |
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| HPV vaccine knowledge (N=317) | True | 52 | 18 | 6 | 21.4 |
| False | 237 | 82 | 22 | 78.6 | |
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| Total | 289 | 100 | 28 | 100 | |
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| Regularity of screening (N=318) | Regular | 93 | 32.8 | 3 | 10.7 |
| Irregular | 191 | 67.2 | 25 | 89.3 | |
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| Total | 294 | 100 | 28 | 100 | |
Low, medium, and high values were based on tertitles of total scores.