PLoS ONE 12(12):Įditor: Magdalena Grce, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, CROATIA However, 32 predominantly university-educated women, with low self-perceived cervical cancer risk, considered their HPV-related knowledge good.Ĭitation: Andersson S, Belkić K, Demirbüker SS, Mints M, Östensson E (2017) Perceived cervical cancer risk among women treated for high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: The importance of specific knowledge. Most of the women with low self-perceived cervical cancer risk did not rate their HPV-related knowledge as good. The Specific Knowledge Scale predicted self-perceived cervical cancer risk (Odds ratio = 11.3, 95% Confidence Interval 5.6 − 22.6) after adjusting for age, income and education. Nearly 30% of the women answered four or fewer of the six queries correctly. A Specific Knowledge Scale with six of the queries explained 58.3% of the total variance. On a scale scored from 10 (highest self-perceived risk of cervical cancer without regular gynecologic follow-up) to 1 (lowest self-perceived risk), 64% rated their risk ≥ 7 almost 30% viewed their risk ≤ 6 and 7.5% did not rate their risk.
Most were married or co-living with their partner and were gainfully employed. Over 75% were age 40 or younger, over half had completed university education. The participation rate was 96.6%, with 479 women enrolled in this study.
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