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Awareness and attitude towards human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among medical students in a premier medical school in India

Pandey, Deeksha ; Vanya, Vidhi ; Bhagat, Saurav ; Vs, Binu ; Shetty, Jyothi Wu, Joseph T.

PloS one, 2012-07, Vol.7 (7), p.e40619-e40619 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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Awareness and attitude towards human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among medical students in a premier medical school in India
Autor: Pandey, Deeksha ; Vanya, Vidhi ; Bhagat, Saurav ; Vs, Binu ; Shetty, Jyothi
Wu, Joseph T.
Assuntos: Adolescent ; Adult ; Analysis ; Cancer ; Cancer prevention ; Cancer vaccines ; Cervical cancer ; Cervix ; Female ; Females ; Health aspects ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Health risks ; Human papillomavirus ; Humans ; Immunization ; Immunization Programs ; Immunotherapy ; India ; Male ; Medical colleges ; Medical personnel ; Medical research ; Medical schools ; Medical students ; Medicine ; Medicine, Experimental ; Papillomavirus infections ; Papillomavirus Infections - prevention & control ; Papillomavirus Infections - virology ; Papillomavirus Vaccines ; Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data ; Population studies ; Prevention ; Public health ; Schools, Medical ; Social and Behavioral Sciences ; Students ; Students, Medical ; Surveys ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - prevention & control ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - virology ; Vaccination ; Vaccines ; Women ; Women's health ; Womens health ; Young Adult
É parte de: PloS one, 2012-07, Vol.7 (7), p.e40619-e40619
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Conceived and designed the experiments: DP JS. Performed the experiments: VV SB. Analyzed the data: VV SB BVS. Wrote the paper: DP.
Descrição: As preventing cancer with the help of a vaccine is a comparatively new concept, awareness and education about it will have important implication in the implementation of this strategy. Present explorative questionnaire based survey included 618 MBBS students for final analysis. Majority of participants (89.6%) were well aware of the preventable nature of cervical cancer. Most of them (89.2%) knew that necessary factor responsible for cervical cancer is infection with high risk HPV. Awareness regarding the availability of vaccine against cervical cancer was 75.6%. Females had a better awareness regarding availability of vaccine, target population for vaccination and about the catch up program. Overall acceptance of HPV vaccine among the population studied was 67.8%. Medical teaching had a definitive impact on the understanding of this important public health issue. Females seemed to be more ready to accept the vaccine and recommend it to others. For our study population the most common source of information was medical school teaching. Majority of participants agreed that the most important obstacle in implementation of HPV vaccination program in our country is inadequate information and 86.2% wanted to be educated by experts in this regard. HPV vaccine for primary prevention of cervical cancer is a relatively new concept. Health professional will be able to play a pivotal role in popularizing this strategy.
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Awareness and attitude towards human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among medical students in a premier medical school in India

Pandey, Deeksha ; Vanya, Vidhi ; Bhagat, Saurav ; Vs, Binu ; Shetty, Jyothi Wu, Joseph T.

United States: Public Library of Science

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