Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine awareness about human papillomavirus (HPV)
among female students of medical field in Pakistan.
METHODS: A researcher administered, descriptive cross-sectional survey
was conducted on a voluntary group of participants (n=629) belonging to
medical field from August 2017 to December 2017. After taking permission
from the administration random convenient sampling method was adopted.
This survey included only female students who were currently studying in
departments of medical/health sciences. Students of first and second
professionals were excluded because they are beginners in medical fields.
RESULTS: The main source of information regarding HPV was academic
curriculum (38.25%) of the respondents, with only 21.70% claiming that
healthcare providers had educated them about the same. However, 70.11%
also reported that HPV/Pap test had never been recommended by their
doctors. Many participants 36.09% had no prior knowledge of HPV vaccines;
while 56.28% were willing to get vaccinated, the remaining 23.21% claimed a
variety of reasons for their unwillingness and rest were uncertain. The top three
reasons cited for unwillingness were being sexually inactive 54.79%, the reason
of not knowing anything about vaccine 6.84% and cost of vaccines 6.84%.
CONCLUSION: This study established that despite having knowledge about
HPV, the populace required sufficient information about HPV vaccination for its
acceptance and to prevent and combat the disease.
Sana Ghayas, Fakhsheena Anjum, Tazeen Husain, Lubna Bashir, Shazia Naz, Muhammad Ali Masood. (2018) HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS AND ITSVACCINE: AWARENESS AND ATTITUDESOF YOUNG FEMALE PAKISTANI STUDENTS, KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, Volume 10, Issue 4.
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