Table 2.
Associations of Participant Characteristics with HPV, HPV Vaccination, and OPC Knowledge
| Variables | HPV knowledge score (N=435) |
HPV vaccination knowledge score (N=454) |
HPV-related OPC knowledge score (N=446) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | p-Value | Mean (SD) | p-Value | Mean (SD) | p-Value | |
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | 3.4 (4.4) | 0.129* | 0.7 (1.5) | 0.097* | 0.7 (1.1) | 0.023* |
| Female | 4.1 (4.7) | 1.0 (1.7) | 0.96 (1.2) | |||
| Academic year | ||||||
| Preclinical | 2.2 (3.6) | < 0.001* | 0.3 (0.8) | < 0.001* | 0.4 (1.0) | |
| Clinical | 6.1 (4.8) | 1.7 (1.97) | 1.4 (1.3) | |||
| Cumulative GPA‡ | 4.2 (4.8) | 1.0 (1.6) | 0.9 (1.1) | |||
| Excellent | 3.8 (4.5) | 0.9 (1.6) | 1.0 (1.2) | |||
| Very good | 3.1 (4.2) | 0.353† | 0.9 (1.5) | 0.833† | 0.9 (1.4) | 0.915† |
| Good and below | ||||||
| Previously vaccinated against hepatitis B | < 0.001* | < 0.001* | < 0.001* | |||
| Yes | 4.7 (4.8) | 1.3 (1.8) | 1.1 (1.3) | |||
| No | 2.8 (4.1) | 0.5 (1.3) | 0.6 (1.1) | |||
| Marital status | ||||||
| Single | 3.8 (4.5) | 0.996* | 0.9 (1.6) | 0.911* | 0.9 (1.2) | 0.482* |
| Married | 3.8 (5.3) | 0.8 (1.7) | 0.7 (1.0) | |||
| STDs | ||||||
| Yes | 5.7 (5.3) | 0.213* | 1.9 (2.2) | 0.082* | 1.2 (1.3) | 0.392* |
| No | 3.8 (4.5) | 0.9 (1.6) | 0.9 (1.2) | |||
| Smoking | ||||||
| Current | 3.6 (4.6) | 0.582† | 0.8 (1.5) | 0.472† | 0.8 (1.2) | 0.253† |
| Former | 3.2 (4.6) | 1.1 (1.8) | 1.1 (1.4) | |||
| Never | 3.9 (4.5) | 0.9 (1.6) | 0.8 (1.2) | |||
| Total | 3.8 (4.5) | 0.9 (1.6) | 0.9 (1.2) | |||
HPV, human papilloma virus; OPC, oropharyngeal cancer; GPA, grade point average; *, Two-sample t-test was used; †, One-way analysis of variance was used; ‡GPA, excellent 4.50 – 5.00, very good 3.75 – 4.49, good and below 2.00 – 3.74.