Table 3.
Respondents in this study N = 385 | ||||||||
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Statements for Consideration | Very High | High | Low | Very Low | ||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
• What is the likelihood that you will go for HBV screening and vaccination because a health worker recommended you to? | 185 | 48.1 | 136 | 35.3 | 34 | 8.8 | 30 | 7.8 |
• What is the likelihood that you will practice safer sexual behavior because you were educated that it will prevent HBV infection? | 156 | 40.5 | 157 | 40.8 | 56 | 14.5 | 16 | 4.2 |
• You are not likely to go for HBV test because it is not a routine in the clinic you go | 116 | 30.1 | 70 | 18.2 | 115 | 29.9 | 84 | 21.8 |
• It is likely that you will not get yourself and your infant vaccinated because the antenatal clinic is far from where you live | 97 | 25.2 | 76 | 19.7 | 108 | 28.1 | 104 | 27.0 |
• You are likely to get hepatitis B infection in your lifetime | 106 | 27.5 | 42 | 10.9 | 101 | 26.2 | 136 | 35.3 |
• Likelihood of not getting carcinoma of liver in your lifetime, if infected with HBV infection | 177 | 46.0 | 75 | 19.5 | 60 | 15.6 | 73 | 19.0 |
• Likelihood compared to a woman of your age group of getting cancer of the liver in your lifetime | 102 | 26.5 | 28 | 7.3 | 132 | 34.3 | 123 | 31.9 |
• Likelihood in your lifetime compared to your spouse of not getting liver carcinoma | 163 | 42.3 | 93 | 24.2 | 65 | 16.9 | 64 | 16.6 |
• Likelihood of your under 5 child getting HBV infection if you are infected | 113 | 29.4 | 55 | 14.3 | 132 | 34.3 | 85 | 22.1 |
• How unlikely is it that your spouse will get infected with HBV infection in his lifetime | 168 | 43.6 | 109 | 28.3 | 54 | 14.0 | 54 | 14.0 |
• Likelihood of taking your child for HBV infection vaccination as part of scheduled routine immunization for infants | 133 | 34.5 | 110 | 28.6 | 68 | 17.7 | 74 | 19.2 |
• Likelihood of getting screened for HBV infection over the next 365 days? | 77 | 20.0 | 80 | 20.8 | 98 | 25.5 | 130 | 33.8 |