Table 2.
Socio-demographic characteristics and facilitator scores of men with and without intention to support their partners’ participation in screening for cervical cancer
| SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES | TOTAL (N = 500) |
CCS Intention | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO (n = 161) |
YES (n = 339) |
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| Age (Mean, SD) | 41.58 (8.5) | 42.63 (8.5) | 41.09 (8.5) | NS |
|
Income (x 1000 INR) (Mean, SD) |
16.68 (6.9) | 16.05(6.70) | 16.98(7.02) | NS |
| Employment (%) | ||||
| Unemployed | 6 (1.2) | 2 (1.2) | 4 (1.2) | NS |
| Employed | 494(98.8) | 159 (98.8) | 334 (98.8) | |
| Education (%) | ||||
| No secondary education | 135 (27) | 55 (34.2) | 80 (23.6) |
p < 0.05, df = 1, Χ²=6.17 |
| Secondary education | 365 (73) | 106 (65.8) | 259 (76.4) | |
| Training in health care profession (%) | ||||
| no | 498 (99.6) | 161 (100) | 337 (99.4) | NS |
| yes | 2 (0.4) | 0 (0) | 2 (0.6) | |
| Health insurance (%) | ||||
| no | 377 (75.4) | 126 (78.3) | 251 (74) | NS |
| yes | 123 (24.6) | 35 (21.7) | 88 (26) | |
| Ease of health care expenditure (%) | ||||
| difficult | 321 (64.2) | 65 (40.4) | 114 (33.6) | NS |
| easy | 179 (35.8) | 96 (59.6) | 225 (66.4) | |
| Habit (%) | ||||
| no | 265 (53) | 107 (66.5) | 158 (46.6) |
p < 0.001 df = 1, Χ²=17.27 |
| yes | 235 (47) | 54 (33.5) | 181 (53.4) | |
| Healthcare-expenditure decision-making (%) | ||||
| others | 418 (83.6) | 134 (83.2) | 284 (83.8) | NS |
| woman herself | 82 (16.4) | 27 (16.8) | 55 (16.2) | |
| FACILITATOR VARIABLES | ||||
| NO(n = 358) | YES(n = 249) | |||
| Had symptoms | ||||
| no | 436(87.2) | 141 (87.6) | 295 (87) | NS |
| yes | 64 (12.8) | 20 (12.4) | 44 (13) | |
| Known someone with Cervical cancer(%) | ||||
| no | 438 (87.6) | 139 (86.3) | 299 (88.2) | NS |
| yes | 62 (12.4) | 22 (13.7) | 40 (11.8) | |
| Health literacy (Mean, SD) | 29.05 (5.5) | 25.6 (5.4) | 30.6 (4.8) | p < 0.05 |
| limited | 394 (78.8) | 150 (93.2) | 244 (72) | |
| adequate | 106 (21.2) | 11 (6.8) | 95 (28) | |