Awareness of female malignancies among women and their partners in Southern Sri Lanka and implications for screening: a cross sectional study

Table 2 Awareness of symptoms and risk factors for female malignancies among participants and their male partners (n-282)

Variable	Numbers with satisfactory knowledge^a (%) Female partner	Number with satisfactory knowledge^a (%) Male partner
Symptoms and signs of breast cancer	136 (48.2)	116 (41.1)
Risk factors for breast cancer	126 (44.7)	109 (38.7)
Symptoms and signs of cervical cancer	135 (47.9)	122 (43.3)
Risk factors for cervical cancer	103 (36.5)	87 (30.9)
Symptoms and signs of uterine cancer	138 (48.9)	116 (41.1)
Risk factors for uterine cancer	97 (34.4)	78 (27.7)

^aSatisfactory level of knowledge was defined when a participant identified more than 50 % of correct responses in a test that had both correct and incorrect answers for each of the subsections listed in the table. For purposes of marking, incorrect responses were not given negative marks but response sheets that had marked all responses as either “yes” or “no” were not counted as it may not reflect a genuine effort to answer all questions according to knowledge (five respondents were excluded on this basis)

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