Cervical cancer screening coverage and its related knowledge in southern Malawi

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Reasons for not screening among women not screened (n = 1227), Blantyre City and Chiradzulu District, Malawi

	All strata pooled			Blantyre City			Chiradzulu District with supported cervical cancer screening services			Chiradzulu District without supported cervical cancer screening services
	n	Col. %	95% CI	n	Col. %	95% CI	n	Col. %	95% CI	n	Col. %	95% CI
Main reason not screened
Lack of time for screening	224	26.0	21.9-30.6	62	30.2	24.3-36.9	87	18.9	14.2-24.7	75	13.4	9.0-19.3
Lack of information about screening	216	13.7	10.3-18.1	24	11.7	7.9-16.9	88	19.1	13.2-26.8	104	18.5	14.6-23.3
Screening location not convenient	197	10.4	8.0-13.4	15	7.3	4.4-11.8	59	12.8	8.4-19.0	123	21.9	15.6-29.9
Lack of motivation to go for screening	187	18.3	14.1-23.3	41	20.1	15.0-26.1	85	18.4	13.3-25.0	61	10.9	7.2-16.0
Fear of screening	149	13.7	11.1-16.9	30	14.6	10.4-20.2	61	13.2	10.2-16.9	58	10.3	7.4-14.3
Lack of screening capacity at health facility	58	3.9	2.5-6.0	7	3.4	1.6-7.0	21	4.6	2.6-7.9	30	5.3	2.8-9.9
Other reason	41	3.4	2.0-5.8	7	3.4	1.6-7.0	8	1.7	0.8-3.7	26	4.6	3.1-6.9
No reason given	155	10.5	5.9-17.9	19	9.3	6.0-14.1	52	11.3	7.8-16.0	84	15.0	9.5-22.8
Total	1227	100		205	100		461	100		561	100
Would be screened by men
No	49	4.9	3.0-7.8	11	5.3	3.0-9.5	17	3.7	2.1-6.5	21	3.7	2.4-5.7
Yes	1171	94.3	91.3-96.3	192	93.7	89.3-96.3	441	95.7	93.0-97.3	538	95.9	93.8-97.3
Do not know	7	0.8	0.2-2.8	2	1.0	0.2-3.9	3	0.6	0.2-2.0	2	0.4	0.1-1.4
Total	1227	100		205	100		461	100		561	100
Would pay for screening
No	548	37.8	33.1-42.7	70	34.1	27.9-41.0	217	47.1	41.4-52.8	261	46.5	40.1-53.1
Yes	679	62.2	57.3-66.9	135	65.9	59.0-72.1	244	52.9	47.2-58.6	300	53.5	46.9-59.9
Total	1227	100		205	100		461	100		561	100

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