Racial and ethnic differences in personal cervical cancer screening amongst post-graduate physicians: Results from a cross-sectional survey

Table 2 Proportion of female post-graduate physicians adherent to United States Preventive Services Task Force cervical cancer screening recommendations and who accurately perceived adherence or non-adherence to the recommendations, stratified by self-identified race/ethnicity

	Adherent		Accurately Perceived Adherence or Non-adherence
	*No. (%)*	*RR (95% CI)*	*No. (%)*	*RR (95% CI)*
Overall	*169 (83)*	*n/a*	*167 (84)*	*n/a*
Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity
White	93 (87)	1.00	93 (88)	1.00
Asian	33 (69)	0.79 (0.64–0.97)^a	37 (82)	0.94 (0.80–1.09)
African-American	15 (94)	1.08 (0.93–1.25)	15 (94)	1.07 (0.92–1.24)
East Indian	13 (87)	1.00 (0.81–1.23)	9 (64)	0.73 (0.49–1.09)^b
Hispanic/Latina	10 (91)	1.05 (0.86–1.28)	9 (82)	0.93 (0.70–1.24)

^a Chi-square P < 0.01, comparing women who self-identified as Asian with women who self-identified as white.
^b Fisher's Exact Test P = 0.036, comparing women who self-identified as East Indian with women who self-identified as white.

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