Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Cervical Cancer and Screening amongst Female Healthcare Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Participants’ sociodemographic characteristics.

Variables	Mean (SD)/median (IQR)^a
Age	34.7 (8.3)
Experience in years	10 (6–16)
Age at marriage (n = 252)	26.2 (4.4)
Number of pregnancies (n = 252)	2 (1–3)
Designation	n (%)^b
Physician	63 (16.0)
Nurse	261 (66.1)
Pharmacist	5 (1.3)
Dietician	3 (0.8)
Technician	23 (5.8)
Health educator	1 (0.3)
Physiotherapists	7 (1.8)
Therapist	21 (5.3)
Others	11 (2.8)
Hospital/center/department
Comprehensive Cancer Center	16 (4.1)
National Neurosciences Institute	9 (2.3)
King Salman Heart Center	19 (4.8)
Obesity Endocrine and Metabolic  Center	1 (0.3)
Women’s Specialized Hospital	49 (12.4)
Children’s Specialized Hospital	135 (34.2)
Rehabilitation Hospital	33 (8.4)
Main Hospital	101 (25.6)
Others	28 (7.1)
Level of education
High school or diploma	69 (17.5)
Bachelor	272 (68.9)
Master or PhD	52 (13.2)
Marital status
Single	143 (36.2)
Married	239 (60.5)
Divorced	11 (2.8)
Widow	1 (0.3)
Single marriage (monogamy) (n = 252)	223 (88.5)
Number of children (parity, n = 252)
0	41 (16.3)
1–3	166 (65.9)
>3	31 (12.3)
Number of abortions (n = 252)
0	157 (62.3)
1–2	63 (25.0)
>2	10 (4.0)
One or more stillbirths (n = 252)	18 (7.1)
Any history of cervical cancer	9 (2.3)
First-degree relatives’ history of cervical cancer	15 (3.8)
Second-degree relatives or friend with history of cervical	12 (3.0)

^aMean (standard deviation (SD))/median (interquartile range (IQR)). ^bFrequency (percentage). Data are missing in participants’ age (n = 30), years of experience (24), age at marriage (163), number of pregnancies (150), hospital/center/department (4), level of education (2), marital status (1), single marriage (163), number of children (152), number of abortions (163), one or more stillbirths (164), history of cervical cancer (13), first-degree relatives’ history of cervical cancer (19), and second-degree relatives or friend’s history of cervical (31). In the calculation of percentages (%), the denominators include missing observations.