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Table 1 Answers about awareness and knowledge of HPV, cervical cancer (causes and prevention), and vaccines among 301 participants

From: Awareness and knowledge of HPV, cervical cancer, and vaccines in young women after first delivery in São Paulo, Brazil - a cross-sectional study

  

Total

%

 

Had ever heard about HPV

110

37,0

 

Knowledge about how HPV may be caught and what it may cause

62

20,6

When asked to explain how HPV may be caught and and what it may cause1

HPV is a sexually transmitted disease

58

19,0

 

HPV can cause cervical cancer

22

7,3

 

HPV can cause genital warts

2

0,7

 

Did not know

2

0,7

 

Knowledge about cervical cancer causes

23

7,6

When asked to explain what they knew about cervical cancer causes1

HPV

19

6,3

 

Hereditary disease

1

0,3

 

Sexual transmitted disease

1

0,3

 

Did not know

2

0,7

 

Knowledge about the examination to prevent cervical cancer or "Pap smear"

157

52,2

When asked to explain what "Pap smear" is

Collection of material, secretion, cells, etc.

80

26,6

 

Like a gynecological examination2

41

13,6

 

Repeated the phrase "examination to prevent cervical cancer''

22

7,3

 

Other

11

3,7

 

Did not know

3

1,0

 

Knowledge about vaccines

246

81,7

When asked to explain what they knew about

Prevention of disease

223

74,1

 

Treatment

13

4,3

 

Other

7

2,3

 

Did not know

3

1,0

 

Knowledge about how many vaccines received

183

60,8

When asked to explain which vaccines received

Answered at least one vaccine correctly

171

56,8

 

Other

7

2,3

 

Did not know

5

1,7

 

Acceptance of vaccination against HPV after delivery 3

301

100,0

  1. 1 Participants could give more than one answer.
  2. 2 Participant seems to know something about it but it is doubtful that she could distinguish it from another gynecological examination.
  3. 3 The interviewer first explained what vaccines are and about HPV vaccine.