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Table 3 Women’s opinions on future aids needed to facilitate self-collection of vaginal sample (number, percent)

From: Acceptability of self-collection sampling for HPV-DNA testing in low-resource settings: a mixed methods approach

 

All sites (N* = 3,195)

Rural Uttar Pradesh (N* = 917)

Hyderabad (N* = 863)

Nicaragua (N* = 705)

Uganda (N* = 710)

Pvalue‡

Aids needed to ease self-collection in the future†

      

  Staff help

1,679 (52.6)

479 (52.2)

496 (57.5)

311 (44.1)

393 (55.4)

<0.001

  More pictures

977 (30.6)

277 (30.2)

415 (48.1)

119 (16.9)

166 (23.4)

<0.001

  Doll/model

828 (25.9)

130 (14.2)

399 (46.2)

35 (5.0)

264 (37.2)

<0.001

  None

710 (22.2)

39 (4.3)

154 (17.8)

252 (35.7)

265 (37.3)

<0.001

  1. *Sample size’s are based on how many women answered the question; Of the total number of women ((All sites (N = 3,863); Rural Uttar Pradesh (N = 942); Hyderabad (N = 1,160); Nicaragua (N = 850) and Uganda (N = 911)), women that did not answer the question were excluded (All sites (N = 181); Rural Uttar Pradesh (N = 21); Hyderabad (N = 0); Nicaragua (N = 139) and Uganda (N = 21)), and women that checked more than one response were accounted for (All sites (N = 487); Rural Uttar Pradesh (N = 4); Hyderabad (N = 297); Nicaragua (N = 6) and Uganda (N = 162)).
  2. †Categories are not mutually exclusive; Women could select more than one response category.
  3. ‡ P value comparing the distribution among study sites.
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