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Table 4 Commercial sex worker women responses to practice and related living in west Arsi, Oromia region, South-East Ethiopia, 2020

From: Knowledge, and practice of cervical cancer prevention and associated factors among commercial sex workers in Shashemene Town, West Arsi, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Variables

Frequency

Percentage

History of screening

78

20.3

Who/which advice from you for screened only? (N = 78) Multiple choice

  

Health professionals

42

53.85

Relatives

35

44.87

Media

19

24.36

Reasons forever not screened? (N = 307) circle all applied

  

I don’t have time

65

21.17

I am not sick

115

37.46

I have other more serious issues to worry about

99

32.25

I have not heard of it

69

22.48

I am afraid of positive results

87

28.34

Others*

43

14.01

  1. Others*I am careless, fear of social stigma, I don’t consider it is important/lack of symptoms