Awareness of Cervical Cancer, Risk Perception, and Practice of Pap Smear Test among Young Adult Women of Dhulikhel Municipality, Nepal

Table 3

Factors associated with the perception of cervical cancer among the study participants.

Variables	Perception category		value	Odds ratio (95% CI)
	Positive (%)	Negative (%)
Level of perception	130 (56.8)	99 (43.2)
Age
25 years and above	103 (60.9)	66 (39.1)	0.03	1.9 (1.1-3.5)
Below 25 years	27 (45.0)	33 (55.0)
Family type
Nuclear	79 (62.7)	47 (37.3)	0.04	1.7 (1.0-2.9)
Joint/extended	51 (49.5)	52 (50.5)
Education level
Formal education	120 (58.5)	85 (41.5)	0.19	1.9 (0.8-4.5)
Illiterate/informal education	10 (41.6)	14 (58.4)
Marital status
Married	107 (73.8)	38 (26.2)	<0.001	7.4 (4.0-13.6)
Unmarried	23 (26.4)	61 (72.6)
Occupation
Housewife	52 (54.7)	43 (45.3)	0.6	0.8 (0.5-1.5)
Nonhousewife	78 (58.2)	56 (41.8)

value less than 0.05. value less than 0.001 level.