Research Article
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Cervical Cancer and Screening amongst Female Healthcare Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 5
Relation of the total score for knowledge about cervical cancer (categoricala) with demographic variables.
| | Sociodemographic variables | Poor knowledge (score: 0–4) | Fair knowledge (score: 5–10) | Good knowledge (score: 11–20) | values | | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) |
| | Age (≤30 years vs. >30 years) | 34 (30–41) | 29 (25–37) | 35 (28–37.5) | 0.002 | | Age at marriage | 26.5 (24–28) | 27 (24–29) | 26.5 (25.5–28) | 0.701 | | Total experience in years (<10 years vs. ≥10 years) | 11 (7–16) | 8 (1–13) | 10.5 (4–14.5) | 0.004 |
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| | Level of education | | | | | | High school or diploma | 56 (18.1) | 8 (13.8) | 4 (25.0) | 0.485 | | Bachelor | 216 (69.9) | 40 (69.0) | 9 (56.3) | | | Master or PhD | 37 (12.0) | 10 (17.2) | 3 (18.8) | | | Designation/profession | | | | | | Nurses | 218 (70.1) | 31 (53.5) | 8 (50.0) | 0.030 | | Physicians | 48 (15.4) | 11 (19.0) | 3 (18.8) | | | Others | 45 (14.5) | 16 (27.6) | 5 (31.3) | | | Hospital/center/department | | | | | | Others | 126 (40.9) | 20 (34.5) | 8 (53.3) | 0.139 | | CSH | 104 (33.8) | 27 (46.6) | 2 (13.3) | | | Main Hospital | 78 (25.3) | 11 (19.0) | 5 (33.3) | |
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aKnowledge of cervical cancer could not be determined for 10 participants due to missing data for some of the responses.
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