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Understanding of Young Adolescents About HPV Infection: How Health Education Can Improve Vaccination Rate
- Source :
- Journal of Cancer Education. 35:850-859
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this systematic review was to identify adolescents' awareness on the human papillomavirus (HPV), the HPV vaccine, and the willingness to undergo the vaccination. A systematic review of studies concerning the adolescent's knowledge and education on the admission of the HPV vaccine was carried out, through the Medline/PubMed and the Google Scholar databases, covering information on adolescent attitudes towards HPV vaccination, as well as their perceptions regarding the vaccination and the need for more training, towards the public information about the HPV and the HPV vaccine. This study concludes that adolescents are poorly informed about the HPV and the preventive vaccination issues, underestimating the likelihood of the infection by the virus. The way to improve their knowledge about the HPV and the implications of the HPV infection is to provide information through the framework of compulsory schooling, primary health care, and the development of informative interactive interventions. The awareness for the need of training about the HPV and its implications should be broadened to address the major barrier to vaccination, which is regarded to be the lack of adequate information. The knowledge and the perceptible susceptibility to the HPV infection and HPV-related diseases among adolescents demonstrate the need for a well-designed training program to bridge the gap of information about the HPV virus and to accept the HPV vaccine.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Psychological intervention
MEDLINE
Young adolescents
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Papillomavirus Vaccines
030212 general & internal medicine
Health Education
Papillomaviridae
Vaccination rate
business.industry
Papillomavirus Infections
Vaccination
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
HPV infection
virus diseases
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
medicine.disease
female genital diseases and pregnancy complications
Oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Family medicine
Female
Health education
Training program
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15430154 and 08858195
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cancer Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6e1192aadf02f9cffb909b017050be7e