Table 1.

Sample characteristics of women participating in HPV primary testing who did and did not record a free-text response during the course of the study (n=921)

	Free-text response recorded at any time		No free-text response recorded		χ2(df), p value
	N	Row %	n	Row %
Overall	381	41.4	540	58.6
Result group
HPV negative	65	26.2	183	73.8	χ2(4)=38.49, <0.001
HPV positive, cytology normal	126	50.0	129	50.0
HPV positive, cytology abnormal	67	39.4	103	60.6
Persistent HPV	91	50.8	88	49.2
Cleared HPV	29	43.9	37	56.1
Age (years)
24–34	171	46.7	195	53.3	χ2(3)=10.63, 0.014
35–44	66	32.7	136	67.3
45–54	80	41.0	115	59.0
55–65	64	41.0	92	59.0
Marital status*
Current partner	281	40.7	410	59.3	χ2(1)=0.79, 0.375
No partner	95	44.4	119	55.6
Education†
Degree or higher	189	48.8	198	51.2	χ2(2)=14.62, 0.001
Qualifications below degree	177	36.0	314	64.0
No formal qualifications	7	38.9	11	61.1
Ethnicity
White (British or other)	356	42.7	527	57.3	χ2(1)=4.77, 0.029
Other ethnicity‡	20	28.6	50	71.4

Where n does not add up to n=921, this is due to missing data.

*Marital status: current partner (married, civil partnership, living with partner, in a relationship) and no partner (single, divorced, widowed).

†No formal qualifications included those with no qualifications and those who were still studying with no previous qualifications.

‡Other ethnicity includes: Asian/Asian British, Black/African/Caribbean/Black British, mixed/multiple ethnic groups, other ethnic group.

HPV, human papillomavirus.