Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of 193 low-income, underscreened women

Characteristics and attitudes
Median Age (range) in years	45 (30–63)
Median time since last Pap test (range) in years	5 (4–20)
	N*	%
Race     White	85	44.5
Black	49	25.7
Hispanic	49	25.7
Other†	8	4.2
Education
High school diploma or less	101	61.2
Some college or more	64	38.8
Income
100% of FPL‡ or more	47	26.0
Below 100% FPL	134	74.0
Current health insurance
No insurance or underinsured	154	80.2
Medicaid or Medicare	38	19.8
Overall thoughts about the self-test
Mostly positive	127	67.6
Neutral	42	22.3
Mostly negative	18	9.6
Don’t know	1	0.5
Willing to use the self-test again
Yes	182	96.3
No	6	3.2
Don’t know	1	0.5
Preference for receiving self-test or Pap results
Phone	39	20.5
Mail	84	44.2
No preference	67	35.3
Trusts the self-test is safe
Completely	116	62.0
A moderate amount	42	22.5
A little	17	9.1
Not at all	5	2.7
Don’t know	7	3.7
Hard to understand the self-test instructions
No	175	93.6
Yes	12	6.4
Physical discomfort when using the self-test
None	126	66.3
A little	59	31.1
A lot	5	2.6
Pain when using the self-test
None	157	82.2
A little	32	16.8
A lot	2	1.0
Bleeding when using the self-test
None	173	92.0
A little	15	8.0

^*Includes 193 participants with complete hrHPV and cytology results. Counts may not total 193 due to missing values: Race=2; Education=28, Income=10, Health insurance=1, Overall thoughts about the self-test=5, Willing to use the self-test again=4, Preference for receiving self-test or Pap results=3, Trusts the self-test is safe=6, Hard to understand the self-test instructions=6, Physical discomfort when using the self-test=3, Pain when using the self-test=2, Bleeding when using the self-test=5.

^†Other includes: Asian (N=1), American Indian or Alaska Native (N=1), “mixed” (N=3), and other not specified (N=3).

^‡FPL=Federal Poverty Level.