Knowledge of, Perception of, and Attitude towards Uterine Fibroids among Women with Fibroids in Lagos, Nigeria

Table 3

Knowledge of fibroids.

Knowledge	Frequency (N)	Percentage (%)
Awareness of uterine fibroids (𝑛=300)
Yes	296	98.6
No	4	3.4
Source(s) of information (𝑛=300)
Parents and relations	82	27.3
Television	55	18.3
Radio	87	29.0
Newspaper	20	6.7
Health workers/hospital	56	18.7
Knowledge of the predisposing factors
Obesity	48	6.0
Women who had never had a child	100	33.3
Black women	107	35.7
People with family history of fibroids	78	26.0
No knowledge	4	1.3