Table 3.
Comparison of the attitudes and beliefs about HPV infection, cervical cancer and HPV vaccine among urban versus rural parents in Mysore district, India 2010/2011(n=1609)
| Attitudes and beliefs: Items | Response | Crude OR (95% CI) | Adjusted OR (95% CI) |
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| Susceptibility to HPV | Disagree | ||
| My daughter may be at-risk of getting HPV infection | Do not know | 0.65 (0.52, 0.82) | 0.66 (0.41, 1.07) |
| Agree | 0.92 (0.67, 1.26) | 0.65 (0.35, 1.22) | |
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| It is likely that my daughter may get HPV infection in the future | Disagree | ||
| Do not know | 0.82 (0.64, 1.04) | 0.88 (0.58, 1.33) | |
| Agree | 0.95 (0.69, 1.320 | 0.74 (0.44, 1.24) | |
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| Susceptibility to cervical cancer | Disagree | ||
| It is possible that my daughter will get cervical cancer in the future | Do not know | 0.85 (0.67, 1.09) | 0.90 (0.59, 1.38) |
| Agree | 1.23 (0.88, 1.72) | 1.28 (0.68, 2.43) | |
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| It is likely that my daughter may get cervical cancer someday | Disagree | ||
| Do not know | 0.81 (0.64, 1.02) | 0.78 (0.54, 1.14) | |
| Agree | 0.94 (0.68, 1.31) | 0.86 (0.51, 1.45) | |
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| Severity of HPV | Disagree | ||
| I believe that HPV infection can cause serious health problem | Do not know | 1.43 (0.90, 2.27) | 1.66 (0.78, 3.53) |
| Agree | 2.91 (1.88, 4.50) | 2.69 (1.43, 5.06) | |
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| I believe that HPV infection can be extremely harmful | Disagree | ||
| Do not know | 1.15 (0.76, 1.73) | 1.30 (0.82, 2.04) | |
| Agree | 2.01 (1.38, 2.92) | 1.81 (1.08, 3.04) | |
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| Severity of cervical cancer | Disagree | ||
| I believe that cervical cancer is a serious disease | Do not know | 1.12 (0.73, 1.72) | 1.78 (1.21, 2.63) |
| Agree | 2.71 (1.84, 3.99) | 2.68 (1.83, 3.91) | |
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| I believe that cervical cancer can be extremely harmful. | Disagree | ||
| Do not know | 1.04 (0.66, 1.64) | 1.49 (0.76, 2.95) | |
| Agree | 2.33 (1.54, 3.52) | 2.28 (1.26, 4.12) | |
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| Beliefs about HPV vaccine | |||
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| Belief that HPV vaccine is safe | No | ||
| Yes | 1.15 (0.70, 1.91) | 0.73 (0.41, 1.29) | |
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| Belief that HPV vaccine will prevent cervical cancer | No | ||
| Yes | 1.05 (0.52, 2.14) | 0.80 (0.40, 1.57) | |
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| Having the HPV vaccination might make girls more likely to have sex | Disagree | ||
| Do not know | 0.68 (0.53, 0.88) | 0.89 (0.58, 1.37) | |
| Agree | 0.56 (0.41, 0.76) | 0.55 (0.33, 0.94) | |
Note: adjusted OR values are estimated based on generalized estimated equation using identity function (beliefs about HPV vaccine items) or multinomial regression (beliefs about susceptibility and severity HPV and cervical cancer) after controlling for age, gender, occupation, religion, marital status, education and awareness about HPV, source of information about HPV vaccine in the case of beliefs about HPV vaccine items. School was used as a cluster variable in all the analysis.