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Table 1 Demographic characteristics by HPV vaccination status of the participants

From: Cervical cancer risk perceptions, sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections among Bivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccinated and non-vaccinated young women in Uganda - 5 year follow up study

  

Study groups

 

Demographic

Total

HPV-vaccinated

Non-vaccinated

p-value

 

N

[f(%)]

[f(%)]

 

Age in years [mean (sd)]

18.6(sd1.4)

18.1(sd1.2)

19.1(sd1.4)

0.000*

Age group

• 18+ years

373

373 (44.5)

207(55.5)

0.000*

• <18 years

110

85 (77.3)

25(22.7)

 

Address

• Urban

343

170(67.2)

173(72.4)

0.210

• Rural

149

83(32.8)

66(27.6)

 

Ethnic tribe

• Ankole

358

210(58.7)

148(41.3)

0.000*

• Others

97

31(32.0)

66(68.0)

 

Religion

• Christians

448

238(53.1)

210(46.9)

0.670

• Muslims

5

2(40.0)

3(60.0)

 

Education level

• S1-S4

348

251(72.1)

97(27.9)

0.000*

• S5-S6

134

1(0.7)

133(99.3)

 
  1. N is total sample size; f is the frequency; (%) is the percentage; Sd is standard deviation; S1-S4 is senior 1 to senior 4 class; S5-S6 is senior 5 to senior 6 class; * is statistically significant p value
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