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Table 3 Baseline characteristics of the participants (n = 255)

From: Uptake of the human papillomavirus vaccine in Kenya: testing the health belief model through pathway modeling on cohort data

 

Meana

Range

Standard

deviation

Characteristics of the mother

 Age of the mother

36

21-59

6.8

 Mother has a partner

76 %

0-1

0.4

 Years of schooling

8.4

0-16

3.5

 Raised in a urban area (vs rural)

60 %

0-1

0.5

 Cervical cancer awareness at baseline

60 %

0-1

0.5

 Islamic (vs. other religion)

4.3

0-1

0.2

Characteristics of the household

 Quality of the house

4.6

2-7

0.9

 Number of children

3.5

1-7

1.3

Characteristics of the daughter

 Age of the daughter

12

8-18

2.0

 Class of the daughter

6

4-8

1.4

  1. aMeans of dichotomous variables are replaced by proportions of ones observed