Knowledge about HPV and Screening of Cervical Cancer among Women from the Metropolitan Region of Natal, Brazil

Table 4

Distribution of respondents by Pap knowledge level according to the considered variables and associated odds ratio (OR) obtained by univariate logistic regression model.

Characteristic	𝑁 = 706	Pap knowledge score				𝑃
		Low or medium	High	OR	CI
Education						0.000
Elementary school or less	262	250	12 (4.6)	1.00	[Reference]
High school or above	444	298	146 (32.9)	10.20	[5.534–8.825]
Household income						0.000
Low income	557	455	102 (18.3)	1.00	[Reference]
Middle or high income	149	93	56 (37.6)	2.68	[1.810–3.987]
Marital status						0.920
Single	253	194	59 (23.3)	1.00	[Reference]
Married or accompanied	453	354	99 (21.8)	0.92	[0.637–1.327]
Pregnancy						0.965
No	375	290	85 (22.7)	1.00	[Reference]
Yes	331	258	73 (22.1)	0.97	[0.677–1.377]