These results are similar to other studies done in rest of the world showing less than satisfactory knowledge about the cause of cervical cancer in the community as well as the health professionals [12], [14], [15], [16], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22].
Most of them present satisfactory knowledge about the causes of HT.
In Tanga region, respondents mentioned that there are no referral forms at the outlets, while others felt that they did not need to refer pneumonia patients because they have satisfactory knowledge about how to treat the condition.
In The English Eccentrics (1933), Edith Sitwell claimed that "Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, and partly, I think, because of that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and birthright of the British nation.
The majority of the pregnant teenagers (86%) demonstrated satisfactory knowledge of at least one method.
Based on the mean scoring technique used, 335 (41.6%) of the respondents had satisfactory knowledge on health extension services by considering household respondents scoring greater than or equal to mean as having satisfactory knowledge.
Conversely, among the respondents with highly satisfactory knowledge, 14.7% had highly satisfactory attitude and 19.5% and 13.9% had satisfactory and highly satisfactory practices, respectively.
Female doctors obtained a mean knowledge score of 74% and were the only professional group that had satisfactory knowledge of risk factors.
By contrast, Viller and colleagues found older age (in addition to female sex, decreased disability, very satisfactory contacts with health professionals, and more personal knowledge about the disease and its treatment) significantly associated with good compliance in their early RA cohort [ 20].
Regarding knowledge, 20.4% of the respondents had highly insufficient knowledge, 23.2% had insufficient knowledge, 22.6% had sufficient knowledge, 16.5% had satisfactory knowledge and 17.2% had highly satisfactory knowledge.
Likewise, when the level of knowledge increased, the highly satisfactory practice increased from 7.7%% to 25.5 % and again decreased to 23.3%% among those who have highly satisfactory knowledge.
