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Table 4 Women’s attitudes about HPV vaccines after intervention by education levels

From: Effect of a group educational intervention on rural Chinese women’s knowledge and attitudes about human papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV vaccines

Item

To vaccinate themselves*

 

To vaccinate their daughter (s)

 

All

Education

Education

All

Education

Education

 

≤9 years

>9 years

 

≤9 years

>9 years

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

P

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

P

(1)Reasons for willing to vaccinate themselves (n = 513)

To vaccinate their daugher(s) (n = 560)

Can Benefit myself/my daughter(s)

198 (26.9)

153 (25.2)

45 (34.9)

0.110b

231 (28.6)

188 (27.2)

43 (36.4)

0.187c

Fear of HPV infection

161 (21.9)

132 (21.7)

29 (22.5)

187 (23.1)

160 (23.2)

27 (22.9)

Fear of having CC

322 (43.8)

276 (45.5)

46 (35.6)

334 (41.3)

296 (42.8)

38 (32.2)

Fear of having genital warts

51 (6.9)

42 (6.9)

9 (7.0)

55 (6.8)

45 (6.5)

10 (8.5)

Total

736

607

129

 

809

691

118

 

(2)Reasons for unwilling to vaccinate themselves(n = 65)

To vaccinate their daugher(s)(n = 76)

I don’t have risk

19 (28.4)

17 (28.8)

2 (25.0)

0.004 c

26 (31.8)

24 (32.9)

2 (20.0)

0.136c

Don’t think the vaccination works

23 (34.3)

23 (39.0)

0 (0.0)

24 (28.2)

23 (31.5)

1 (10.0)

It hasn’t been widely used

7 (10.4)

4 (6.8)

3 (37.5)

10 (11.8)

7 (9.6)

3 (30.0)

Vaccination causes risks

5 (7.5)

3 (5.1)

2 (25.0)

6 (7.1)

5 (6.8)

1 (10.0)

Doubts on the resource

7 (10.4)

7 (11.8)

0 (0.0)

6 (8.2)

4 (5.5)

2 (20.0)

No answer**

6 (9.0)

5 (8.5)

1 (12.5)

11 (12.9)

10 (13.7)

1 (10.0)

Total

67

59

8

 

83

73

10

 
  1. bχ2 test, cFisher’s exact test
  2. *585 women were aged ≤45 years, 7 were excluded from the analysis due to lack of information on intent to vaccinate themselves
  3. **Women that did not answer the question were not included in the analysis
  4. Boldface reflects statistical significance