Determinants of women’s likelihood of vaginal self-sampling for human papillomavirus to screen for cervical cancer in Taiwan: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Sample characteristics

Characteristics	n	%		n	%
All women ( N = 500)			Women who heard of HPV ( N = 297)
Age, years			Previous Pap testing
≤29	138	27.6	Yes	206	69.4
30-39	216	43.2	No	91	30.6
40-49	106	21.2	Perceived risk of cervical cancer
≥50	40	8.0	High	90	30.3
Education			Low	207	69.7
≤High school	169	33.8	Willingness to self-sample for HPV
College	131	26.2	Willing	196	66.0
Baccalaureate degree	177	35.4	Unwilling/undecided	101	34.0
≥Graduate degree	23	4.6	HPV knowledge^b
Annual household income (NT$)			High	76	25.6
≤500,000	194	38.8	Moderate	127	42.8
510,000-1,000,000	203	40.6	Low	94	31.6
1,010,000-1,500,000	67	13.4	Priority consideration for HPV self-sampling
1,510,000-2,000,000	22	4.4	Cost	234	78.8
≥2,010,000	14	2.8	Clinical site/time	63	21.2
Marital status
Single (D, S, W)^a	128	25.6
Married	372	74.4
Residential area
City	378	75.6
Town	79	15.8
Rural	43	8.6
Previous Pap testing
Yes	331	66.2
No	169	33.6
Heard of HPV
Yes	297	59.4
No	203	40.6

^aD refers to divorced, S refers to separated, W refers to widowed.
^bHPV knowledge was categorized as high, moderate, and low based on the number of correct answers above the mode score, between median and mode score, or below the median score, respectively. Scores of ≥15 points were coded as ‘high’ knowledge, those with 13 to 14 points were coded as ‘moderate’ knowledge, and those with ≤12 points were coded as low knowledge.

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