Adaptation of patients diagnosed with human papillomavirus: a grounded theory study

Table 1 The demographic characteristics of the patients

No	Age	Gender	Education	Occupation	Marital status	Number of children	Length of infection (months)	Interval between symptom onset and diagnosis (months)	Virus type	Genital warts	Type of sexual relationship
1	33	Man	Associate degree	Office clerk	Married	1	84	60	Unknown (Spouse’s type was 18)	Yes	Vaginal
2	27	Man	Master’s degree	Self-employed	Single	0	10	2–3	Unknown	Yes	Vaginal/anal/oral
3	38	Man	Master’s degree	Self-employed	Married	0	120	6	Unknown	Yes	Vaginal
4	40	Woman	High school diploma	Self-employed	Married	3	6	0	16, 54	Yes	Vaginal/anal/oral
5	34	Woman	High school diploma	Homemaker	Married	2	8	0	45	Yes	Vaginal
6	34	Woman	Master’s degree	Homemaker	Married	1	1	0	6	Yes	Vaginal/anal/oral
7	19	Woman	High school diploma	Homemaker	Single	0	1	2	Unknown	Yes	Anal
8	50	Man	Middle school	Retired	Married	2	21	2	Unknown	Yes	Vaginal/anal/oral
9	27	Man	Bachelor’s degree	Unemployed	Single	0	36	14	Unknown	Yes	Vaginal/anal/oral
10	24	Woman	High school diploma	Unemployed	Single	0	1 week	0	6, 11, 53	Yes	Anal
11	43	Man	High school	Self-employed	Married	2	5	2	Unknown	Yes	Vaginal
12	28	Woman	Middle school	Prostitute	Married	2	2 weeks	0	^aPositive non16 and 18	Yes	Vaginal/anal
13	32	Man	Bachelor’s degree	Office clerk	Married	0	12	2	11	Yes	Vaginal
14	40	Woman	High school diploma	Homemaker	Married	3	1	0	16	No	Vaginal/oral
15	30	Man	High school diploma	Self-employed	Single	0	10	1	Unknown	Yes	Vaginal/anal/oral
16	45	Man	Middle school	Self-employed	Married	2	5	4	Unknown (Spouse’s type was 6)	Yes	Vaginal
17	45	Woman	Middle school	Homemaker	Married	2	4	1	6, 66	Yes	Vaginal/anal/oral
18	32	Woman	Ph.D	Office clerk	Married	0	12	3	58	Yes	Vaginal

^aTo reduce the costs of medical tests or because of the policies of some doctors to reduce their patients’ stress, some patients run this kind of typing test in which the test kit only detects types 16 and 18. If a patient is infected, but his/her type is not 16 or 18, the test result comes out as “positive, non 16, 18.”

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