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Table 4 County characteristics associated with never performing Pap smear - Univariate analysis (N = 1063)

From: General practitioners who never perform Pap smear: the medical offer and the socio-economic context around their office could limit their involvement in cervical cancer screening

County characteristics

% of GPs never performing Pap smear

OR

[95%CI]

p

Categorical

 Poverty rate above the national average*

  Yes

40.7

1.59

[0.99–2.53]

0.054

  No

29.1

1

  

 Time to go to GPs

   > 1 min#

26.8

1

 

0.01

   ≤ 1 min

39.6

1.91

[1.20–3.05]

 

 Time to go to gynecologists

   > 15 min#

18.9

1

 

< 0.0001

   ≤ 15 min

39.2

2.97

[1.78–4.93]

 

 Organized CCS program

  Yes

25.4

0.73

[0.24–2.25]

0.58

  No

35.4

1

  

Linear (1 unit of increase)

 Poverty gap index (1 percentage point)

–

1.39

[1.22–1.58]

< 0.0001

 Gynecologists density (1 Gyn. per 100,000 women)

–

1.07

[1.04–1.1]

< 0.0001

Piecewise regression (1 unit of increase)

 GPs density (1 GPs per 10,000 inhabitants)

 Slope below 9.5 GPs per 10,000 inhabitants#

–

0.53

[0.37–0.77]

0.001

 Slope above 9.5 GPs per 10,000 inhabitants

–

1.55

[1.24–1.94]

0.0001

  1. GP: General Practitioner
  2. *national average = 14%
  3. #approximately the national average