Understanding of Young Adolescents About HPV Infection: How Health Education Can Improve Vaccination Rate
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Understanding of Young Adolescents About HPV Infection: How Health Education Can Improve Vaccination Rate Ioannis Thanasas 1 & Giagkos Lavranos 2 & Pinelopi Gkogkou 3 & Dimitrios Paraskevis 4
# American Association for Cancer Education 2020
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. Keywords HPV . Vaccines . Knowledge . Education . Vaccination . Adolescents
Introduction The human papilloma virus (HPV) and the HPV infection should by no means be considered as a problem of the past decades. The first reports about the HPV virus and the effects of the HPV infection have come from antiquity. HPV infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease nowadays and is the main cause of cervical cancer. Up to now, more than 100 subtypes of HPV have been identified [1]. Although most HPV infections are asymptomatic and regress spontaneously * Ioannis Thanasas [email protected] 1
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, General Hospital in Trikala, Trikala, Greece
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Medical School and Department of Health Sciences, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Oncology Department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
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Department of Hygiene Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
within a few years [2], it is estimated that the prevalence of genital infection from any type of HPV during 2011–2014, concern the 42.5% of adults aged 18 to 69 in the USA [3]. The types of HPV according to the risk of oncogenesis are distinguished at high and low risk. Low-risk types are detected in exorbent warts, warts, and low-grad
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