Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Cervical Cancer and Screening amongst Female Healthcare Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Participants’ attitudes towards cervical cancer.

Statements describing attitudes of the participants towards cervical cancer	Agree, n (%)	Neither agree nor disagree, n (%)	Disagree, n (%)
A1: carcinoma of the cervix is highly prevalent and is a leading cause of deaths amongst all malignancies in Saudi Arabia	52 (13.2)	124 (31.4)	210 (53.2)
A2: any young woman including you can acquire cervical carcinoma	29 (7.3)	48 (12.2)	309 (78.2)
A3: carcinoma of the cervix cannot be transmitted from one person to another	79 (20.0)	39 (9.9)	265 (67.1)
A4: screening helps in prevention of carcinoma of the cervix	18 (4.6)	32 (8.1)	335 (84.8)
A5: screening causes no harm to the client	36 (9.1)	41 (10.4)	309 (78.2)
A6: screening for cervical cancer is not expensive	51 (12.9)	108 (27.3)	225 (57.0)
A7: if screening is free and causes no harm, will you screen?	15 (3.8)	29 (7.3)	342 (86.6)

n (%): frequencies (percentage) of participants; percentages are computed with missing observations included in the denominator. Data are missing in A1 (for 9 participants), A2 (9), A3 (12), A3 (10), A5 (9), A6 (11), and A6 (9).