Table 1.

Socio-demographics and sexual conduct of study subjects according to cervical screening results

	NSIL		LSIL		HSIL		CC
	n = 239	%	n = 901	%	n = 54	%	n = 291	%	p
Age (years)a	39.8 ± 11.3		37.4 ± 11.6		38.4 ± 12.5		53.1 ± 13.2		0.001b
Range	19–74		14–82		20–63		24–89
Smoking status
No	204	85.4	785	87.1	46	85.2	189	64.9	0.905c
Yes	23	9.6	88	9.8	6	11.1	25	8.6
Unknown	12	5.0	28	3.1	2	3.7	77	26.5
Alcohol consumption
No	119	49.8	563	62.5	41	75.9	173	59.4	0.001c
Yes	102	42.7	296	32.7	11	20.4	20	6.9
Unknown	18	7.5	43	4.8	2	3.7	98	33.7
Parity
None	41	17.1	196	21.7	8	14.8	4	1.4	0.001c
1–2	82	34.3	354	39.3	10	18.6	18	6.2
3–5	97	40.6	288	32.0	14	25.9	83	28.5
≥ 6	15	6.3	53	5.9	18	33.3	134	46.0
Unknown	4	1.7	10	1.1	4	7.4	52	17.9
Sexual age at screening
<16	12	5.1	75	8.3	11	20.4	87	29.9	0.001c
16–20	131	54.8	486	53.9	33	61.1	115	39.5
>20	94	39.3	335	37.2	8	14.8	32	11.0
Unknown	2	0.8	5	0.6	2	3.7	57	19.6
No. of life time sexual partners
1-2	183	76.6	644	71.5	42	77.8	170	58.4	0.015c
≥3	44	18.4	224	24.9	8	14.8	36	12.4
Unknown	12	5.0	33	3.6	4	7.4	85	29.2
Education (years)
0	0	0.0	20	2.2	9	16.7	79	27.1	0.001c
6	24	10.0	125	13.9	23	42.6	78	26.8
9	24	10.0	131	14.5	2	3.7	8	2.8
10–12	151	63.2	510	56.6	16	29.6	3	1.0
≥13	23	9.6	79	8.8	0	0.0	0	0.0
Unknown	17	7.2	36	4.0	4	7.4	123	42.3

NSIL non-squamous intraepithelial lesions, LSIL low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, HSIL high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, CC cervical cancer. ^aExpressed as mean ± standard deviation; ^bKruskal-Wallis; ^cFisher’s exact test