Table 5

Health demography characteristics of women who provided a baseline questionnaire

Type of characteristic	First offer: HPV self-sampling Arm A*† Total=78	(%)	First offer: Pap test Arm B*† Total=104	(%)	p Value
Self-reported health status
Excellent	1	1.3	10	9.6	0.118‡
Very Good	24	30.8	26	25.0
Good	37	47.4	53	51.0
Fair	13	16.7	10	9.6
Poor	3	3.8	3	2.9
Use on-reserve healthcare	43	55.1	45	43.3	0.113
Use traditional medicine	9	11.5	11	10.6	0.838
Most recent Pap test prior to baseline questionnaire§
<6 months	5	6.4	18	17.3	0.586‡
Between 6 months and 1 year	14	17.9	16	15.4
Between 1 and 3 years	35	44.9	35	33.7
More than 3 years	17	21.8	33	31.7
Pap test in 3 year interval prior to baseline questionnaire¶	54	69.2	69	66.3	0.681
Abnormal Pap ever	19	24.4	31	29.8	0.493
Receiving/completed treatment	12	63.2	14	45.2	0.713
Reported a hysterectomy	10	12.8	8	7.7	0.251
Residential school
Personally attended	7	9.0	7	6.7	0.574
Parents/grandparents attended	34	43.6	50	48.1	0.548
Health impact of residential school attendants
Favourable	4	9.8	0	0.0	0.103
Adverse	14	34.1	23	40.4
No effect	8	19.5	13	22.8
Do not know/prefer not to answer	9	22.0	16	28.1

*N (%) unless otherwise specified.
†Totals may not sum to 100% because of unanswered question, or ‘Prefer not to answer’/‘Do not know’ responses.
‡Linear-by-linear association test with exact p Value.
§Counts in rows ‘Never’ and ‘Do not know’ were removed because of too low counts (0–2) to permit a linear-by-linear association test.
¶Expected counts were so low that N-1 χ² test was used.