Intention to Screen for Cervical Cancer Among Child Bearing Age Women in Bahir Dar City, North-West Ethiopia: Using Theory of Planned Behavior

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Table 1 Summary of Direct and Indirect Measures of Theory of Planned Behavior Variables

	TPB Constructs	Items	Scale	Scoring	Outcome
1	Attitude	4	SDs		DA score
2.	Subjective norms	4	SDs		DSN score
3	Perceived behavioral control	4	SDs		DPBC score
4	Intention	3	Likert		IN score
5	Behavioral belief	7	Likert		Indirect attitude/IA./
	Outcome evaluation	7
6	Normative belief	4	Likert		Indirect subjective norm/ISN./
	Motivation to comply	4
7	Control belief	5	Likert		Indirect perceived behavioral control/IPBC?
	Power of control	5

Abbreviations: DA, direct attitude; DSN, direct subjective norm; DPBC, direct perceived behavioral control; IN, intention; SDs, semantic differentials.

Table 2 Sociodemographic Characteristics Results of Child Bearing Age Women in Bahirdar City, 2018

Characteristics	Category	Frequency
Marital status	Married	511 (61.4)
	Single	230 (27.6)
	Divorced	64 (7.7)
	Widowed	27 (3.2)
Religion	Orthodox Christian	671 (80.6)
	Muslim	88 (10.6)
	Protestant	60 (7.2)
	Catholic	13 (1.6)
Ethnicity	Amhara	787 (94.6)
	Oromo	25 (3.0)
	Tigre	20 (2.4)
Respondent’ age	18–24	143 (17.2)
	25–29	228 (27.4)
	30–34	176 (21.2)
	35–49 years	285 (34.3)
Respondents’ educational level	1–8(primary)	263 (31.6)
	9–12 (secondary)	237 (28.5)
	above 12^+(tertiary)	332 (39.9)
Respondents’ occupation	Government employee	212 (25.5)
	Private	308 (37.0)
	Unemployed	31 (3.7)
	Housewife	203 (24.4)
	Student	78 (9.4)
Partners’ occupation	Government employee	211 (25.4)
	Private	294 (35.3)
	Unemployed	6 (0.7)
Partners’ educational level	1–8 (primary)	137 (16.5)
	Grade 9–12	133 (16.0)
	Tertiary (12+)	241 (28.8)
Monthly income	<900	68 (8.2)
	900–1,600	193 (23.2)
	1,600–2,700	237 (28.5)
	>2,700	334 (40.1)

Table 3 Correlation Analysis of Direct and Indirect Constructs of Theory of Planned Behavior

	Mean (SD)	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Direct Att.	15.97 (2.11)	1
2. In direct Att.	123.97 (33.34)	51	1
3. Direct PBC	15.84 (2.90)	44	64	1
4. Indirect PBC	47 (25.15)	18	17	20	1
5. Direct SN	17.23 (4.26)	36	57	58	14	1
6. Indirect SN	48.50 (19.39)	33	59	45	16	61	1

Note: Correlation is significant at 0.05 (2 tailed).

Table 4 Multiple Linear Regression Analysis Result on Cervical Cancer Screening Intention Among Childbearing Age Women in Bahirdar City, 2018

Variables	Unstandardized β	Standardized B	95% CI β
	3.70	–	2.14	5.25
Direct attitude	0.15*	0.14	0.08	0.23
Direct SN	0.06*	0.12	0.02	0.09
Direct PBC	0.19*	0.28	0.14	0.25
Past screening experience
No (ref)
Yes	0.64*	0.11	0.29	0.88
Monthly income
<900 (ref)
900–1,600	0.32	0.06	−0.19	0.83
1,600–2,700	0.37	0.08	−0.14	0.88
>2,700	0.30	0.07	−0.24	0.85
Marital status
Single (ref)
Married	0.20	0.05	−0.16	0.57
Divorced	0.70	0.09	0.19	1.21
Widowed	0.33	0.02	−0.39	1.05
Respondents occupation
Unemployed (ref)
Government employee	−0.24	−0.05	−0.95	0.46
Private	−0.68	−0.16	−1.36	−0.00
Housewife	−0.46	−0.09	−1.17	0.24
Student	−0.14	−0.02	−0.91	0.62
Husbands education
Unable to write and read (ref)
able to read and write	−0.09	−0.00	−1.35	1.16
secondary school	−0.02	−0.00	−1.12	1.06
tertiary	0.02	0.00	−1.06	1.11
primary school	−0.54	−0.09	−1.66	0.56

Note: *P<0.05.

Abbreviation: ref, reference.