Table 2.
Characteristics, by study group, of perceived susceptibility to cervical cancer
| Un/under-screened | Screened | Colposcopy | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes n=42 | No n=28 | DK n=90 | P a | Yes n=56 | No n=37 | DK n=105 | P a | Yes n=66 | No n=33 | DK n=67 | P a | |
| Ageb | 37.1 (8.0) | 39.1 (8.8) | 41.7 (9.4) | .02 | 35.2 (8.3) | 34.7 (7.5) | 34.4 (7.3) | .80 | 31.4 (6.5) | 34.2 (8.0) | 31.3 (6.3) | .09 |
| Education (y)b | 12.0 (2.4) | 12.7 (2.1) | 11.8 (1.9) | .13 | 12.5 (2.3) | 12.2 (2.5) | 12.9 (2.4) | .20 | 12.6 (2.2) | 12.5 (2.0) | 12.2 (2.6) | .64 |
| Married/cohabitatec | 13 (31.0) | 4 (14.3) | 30 (33.3) | .15 | 22 (39.3) | 15 (40.5) | 26 (25.0) | .08 | 21 (31.8) | 7 (21.2) | 17 (25.4) | .49 |
| Sexual initiation (y)b | 15.1 (2.5) | 16.4 (2.7) | 16.8 (3.7) | .02 | 15.7 (2.7) | 16.8 (4.0) | 16.6 (2.6) | .13 | 15.9 (3.0) | 16.9 (2.6) | 17.0 (2.7) | .06 |
| Lifetime partners (#)b | 11.4 (10.5) | 6.7 (5.1) | 8.2 (8.3) | .06 | 9.6 (8.9) | 6.5 (5.1) | 8.5(7.8) | .17 | 10.1 (9.0) | 7.2 (5.5) | 8.9 (14.5) | .47 |
| Income/month | 1137 | 1040 | 1025 | .63 | 1456 | 1687 | 1347 | .67 | 1286 | 1213 | 1278 | .92 |
| (US$)b | (752) | (491) | (568) | (1429) | (2265) | (1995) | (913) | (775) | (785) | |||
| How often do you visit the doctor when sickc | ||||||||||||
| Always | 13 (31.0) | 7 (25.0) | 19 (21.1) | 20 (35.7) | 8 (21.6) | 28 (26.7) | 23 (34.9) | 17 (51.5) | 18 (26.9) | |||
| Sometimes | 20 (47.6) | 14 (50.0) | 49 (54.4) | .90 | 33 (58.9) | 26 (70.3) | 62 (59.1) | .36 | 34 (51.5) | 9 (27.3) | 41 (61.2) | .04 |
| Never | 4 (9.6) | 4 (14.3) | 13 (14.4) | 1(1.8) | 2 (5.4) | 4 (3.8) | 5 (7.6) | 2 (6.1) | 2 (3.0) | |||
| Not sick | 5 (11.9) | 3 (10.7) | 9(10.0) | 2(3.6) | 1(2.7) | 11(10.5) | 4 (6.1) | 5 (15.2) | 6 (9.0) | |||
| Pap Recommendationc | 11 (26.2) | 3(10.7) | 22(24.4) | .25 | 16 (28.6) | 7 (18.9) | 13 (12.4) | .04 | 22 (33.3) | 8 (24.2) | 15 (22.4) | .34 |
| Family historyc | 27 (64.3) | 14 (50.0) | 49 (54.4) | .44 | 42 (75.0) | 16 (43.2) | 49 (46.7) | <.01 | 50 (75.8) | 15 (45.5) | 39 (58.2) | <.01 |
| Perceived seriousness of cervical cancerc | ||||||||||||
| Slight/moderate | 1 (2.4) | 3 (10.7) | 3 (3.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.7) | 1 (0.9) | 2 (3.0) | 1 (3.0) | 3 (4.5) | |||
| Serious | 10 (23.8) | 4 (14.3) | 28 (31.1) | .27 | 10 (17.9) | 10 (27.0) | 21 (20.0) | .12 | 15 (22.7) | 9 (27.3) | 19 (28.3) | .40 |
| Extreme | 30 (71.4) | 20 (71.4) | 58 (64.5) | 46 (82.1) | 24 (64.9) | 74 (70.5) | 49 (74.2) | 23 (69.7) | 41 (61.2) | |||
| DK | 1 (2.4) | 1 (3.6) | 1 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (5.4) | 9 (8.6) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (6.0) | |||
| Perceived prior HPV exposurec | ||||||||||||
| No | 15 (35.7) | 19 (67.9) | 26 (28.9) | 14 (25.0) | 29 (78.4) | 31 (29.5) | <.01 | 12 (18.2) | 18 (54.6) | 21 (17.9) | ||
| Yes | 6 (14.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | <.01 | 18 (32.1) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (5.7) | 22 (33.3) | 7 (21.2) | 10 (14.9) | <.01 | |
| DK | 21 (50.0) | 9 (32.1) | 64 (71.1) | 24 (42.9) | 8 (21.6) | 68 (64.8) | 32 (48.5) | 8 (24.2) | 45 (67.2) | |||
Abbreviations: DK, I don’t know; Sexual initation, age at first intercourse; Lifetime partners: lifetime sexual partners; Family history:
cancer-related death; Pap recommendation: Provider recommendation in past year; HPV: Human Papillomavirus
a
ANOVA for continuous variables, Pearson χ2 for categorical variables, and Exact P-value for categorical variables with cell size ≤ 5
b
Mean (standard deviation)
c
n (%)