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Table 2 Awareness and attitudes towards HPV/HPV vaccines among students at baseline

From: Effect of an educational intervention on HPV knowledge and attitudes towards HPV and its vaccines among junior middle school students in Chengdu, China

Items

Control

Intervention

Totala

P b

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Have you ever heard of cervical cancer/genital warts

 Yes

248 (33.6)

322 (35.0)

570 (34.3)

0.563

 No

490 (66.4)

599 (65.0)

1089 (65.7)

Have you ever heard of HPV

 Yes

106 (14.5)

110 (12.0)

216 (15.1)

0.142

 No

627 (85.5)

806 (88.0)

1433 (84.9)

Have you ever heard of HPV vaccines

 Yes

165 (22.4)

123 (13.4)

288 (17.5)

< 0.001

 No

571 (77.6)

795 (86.6)

1366 (82.5)

Are you willing to be vaccinated when HPV vaccines become available?

 Yes

338 (53.3)

503 (56.5)

841 (55.2)

0.215

 No

296 (46.7)

387 (42.5)

683 (44.8)

  1. aNumbers do not add up to 1675 due to some incomplete answers
  2. bChi-squared test