Table 4.
Associations between Participant Characteristics and Willingness to Take the HPV Vaccine
| Variables | Willing to take HPV vaccine N=216 N (%)* |
Not willing to take HPV vaccine N=264 N (%)* |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | |||
| Male | 70 (43) | 92 (57) | 0.417† |
| Female | 141 (47) | 158 (53) | |
| Academic year | |||
| Preclinical | 97 (41) | 140 (59) | 0.021† |
| Clinical | 101 (52) | 93 (48) | |
| Cumulative GPA§ | 0.471† | ||
| Excellent | 82 (44) | 106 (56) | |
| Very good | 104 (47) | 115 (53) | |
| Good and below | 21 (39) | 33 (61) | |
| Previously vaccinated against hepatitis B | 0.007† | ||
| Yes | 122 (51) | 117 (49) | |
| No | 87 (39) | 138 (61) | |
| History of STDs | 0.197‡ | ||
| Yes | 6 (67) | 3 (33) | |
| No | 205 (44) | 259 (56) | |
| Marital status | 0.886† | ||
| Single | 206 (45) | 254 (55) | |
| Married | 6 (43) | 8 (57) | |
| HPV knowledge score|| | 0.018† | ||
| High | 19 (66) | 10 (34) | |
| Low | 168 (43) | 223 (57) | |
| HPV vaccination knowledge score|| | 0.161† | ||
| High | 17 (57) | 13 (43) | |
| Low | 181 (44) | 235 (56) | |
| HPV-related OPC knowledge score|| | 0.905† | ||
| High | 7 (44) | 9 (56) | |
| Low | 191 (45) | 231 (55) | |
HPV, human papillomavirus; GPA, grade point average; STDs, sexually transmitted diseases; OPC, oropharyngeal cancer; *Some numbers do not add up to the total sample number because of missing values. †Chi-square test was used; ‡Fisher’s exact test was used; §GPA, excellent 4.50 – 5.00; very good 3.75 – 4.49; good and below 2.00 – 3.74. ||, Knowledge score; 75% and above was considered high; below 75% was considered low.