Table 2.

Comparison of the attitudes and beliefs about HPV infection, cervical cancer and HPV vaccine between rural and urban parents of adolescent girls in Mysore district, India 2010/2011(n=1609)

Attitudes and beliefs	Response	Urban (n=778)	Rural (n=831)	p-value
Susceptibility to HPV	Disagree	30.3	23.4	<0.001
My daughter may be at-risk of getting HPV infection	Do not know	53.2	62.9
	Agree	16.5	13.7
It is likely that my daughter may get HPV infection in the future	Disagree	23.65	20.70	0.209
	Do not know	60.54	64.74
	Agree	15.81	14.56
Susceptibility to cervical cancer	Disagree	22.6	21.1	0.033
It is possible that my daughter will get cervical cancer in the future	Do not know	61.2	66.8
	Agree	16.1	12.2
It is likely that my daughter may get cervical cancer someday	Disagree	25.5	22.14	0.160
	Do not know	59.3	63.90
	Agree	15.2	13.96
Severity of HPV	Disagree	4.0	8.9	<0.001
I believe that HPV infection can cause serious health problem	Do not know	21.9	34.1
	Agree	74.2	57.0
I believe that HPV infection can be extremely harmful.	Disagree	6.04	10.11	<0.001
	Do not know	18.64	27.20
	Agree	75.32	62.70
Severity of cervical cancer	Disagree	5.3	10.8	<0.001
I believe that cervical cancer is a serious disease	Do not know	16.1	29.5
	Agree	78.7	59.7
I believe that cervical cancer can be extremely harmful.	Disagree	4.8	8.8	<0.001
	Do not know	15.9	28.3
	Agree	79.3	62.9
Believes about HPV vaccine
Belief that HPV vaccine is safe	No	7.2	8.4	0.387
	Yes	92.2	91.6
Belief that HPV vaccine will prevent cervical cancer	No	8.5	9.3	0.617
	Yes	90.0	90.0
Having the HPV vaccination might make girls more likely to have sex	Disagree	23.7	16.7
	Do not know	56.3	58.6
	Agree	18.5	23.5	0.001

Notes:

Values in the tables are percentages

Percent values for some items categories do not add up to 100 due to missing data