The purpose of the study was to assess the knowledge of Polish and Finnish students about cervical cancer prevention and the factors influencing it.
427 women took part in the research, 175 of whom were Finns and 252 Poles. The questionnaire had 20 questions. The survey had three parts: (1) socio-metric, (2) a knowledge test-13 questions, (3) questions about the sources of knowledge and their evaluation. Statistical analysis was made using the SPSS 18.0 program. The impact of variables such as socio-metric values or knowledge sources on answers to individual questions was verified using the ?(2) test, while significance of these variables on the total score was assessed using ANOVA. The significance level was p