Vaccine acceptance | |||||
Parental consent method | Invitation to health education event (n (%)) | Information letter sent home (n (%)) (n=1672) | P value | ||
Households reached with information | 906/3171 (28.6) | 1672 (100.0)* | <0.0001 | ||
Acceptance per informed households | 498/568 (87.7)† | 1022 (61.1) | <0.0001 | ||
Acceptance per total target group | 2046/3465 (59.0) | 1022 (61.1) | 0.2295 |
Knowledge about cervical cancer before and after intervention | |||||
Knowledge before health education event (n) | Knowledge after health education event (n) | Significance of change (p value) | |||
Inadequate | Adequate | Inadequate | Adequate | ||
Symptoms | 239 | 538 | 115 | 662 | <0.005 |
Screening | 539 | 238 | 288 | 489 | <0.005 |
Vaccination | 640 | 137 | 149 | 628 | <0.05 |
Total | 1418 | 913 | 552 | 1779 |
Bolded values indicate statistically significant findings
*Assuming that all households received the letter.
†Data incomplete.