Cervical Cancer: Community Perception and Preventive Practices in an Urban Neighborhood of Lagos (Nigeria)

Table 7

Willingness to attend a cervical cancer educational program by educational status.

	Attend educational program			Total	Test of significance	𝑃 value
	Yes	No	Do not know
Gender
Male
Educational status
No formal	3 (60.0)	1 (20.0)	1 (20.0)	5 (100)	Fishers exact = 6.056	0.868
Primary	21 (80.8)	4 (15.4)	1 (3.8)	26 (100)
Secondary	46 (76.7)	10 (16.7)	4 (6.7)	60 (100)
Tertiary	21 (75.0)	6 (21.4)	1 (3.6)	28 (100)
Total	91 (76.5)	21 (17.6)	7 (5.9)	119 (100)
Female
Educational status
No formal	19 (82.6)	3 (13.0)	1 (4.3)	23 (100)	Fishers exact = 8.969	0.312
Primary	36 (90.0)	0 (0.0)	4 (10.0)	40 (100)
Secondary	93 (91.2)	3 (2.9)	6 (5.9)	102 (100)
Tertiary	27 (90.0)	2 (6.7)	1 (3.3)	30 (100)
No resp.	2 (100)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2 (100)
Total	177 (89.8)	8 (4.1)	12 (6.1)	197 (100)
Total
No formal	22 (78.6)	4 (14.3)	2 (7.1)	28 (100)	Fishers exact = 10.964	0.810
Primary	57 (86.4)	4 (6.1)	5 (7.6)	66 (100)
Secondary	1139 (85.8)	13 (8.0)	10 (6.2)	162 (100)
Tertiary	48 (82.8)	8 (13.8)	2 (3.4)	58 (100)
No resp.	2 (100)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2 (100)
Total	1268 (84.8)	29 (9.2)	19 (6.0)	316 (100)

Educational status was not significantly associated with the willingness to attend a cervical cancer educational program. (𝑃>0.05).