Knowledge and awareness about human papillomavirus infection and its vaccination among women in Arab communities
| Autor: | Ahlam A. Ali, Zainab Hussain, Esraa I. Al-abbadi, Sayer I Al-Azzam, Mariam Abdel Jalil, Hala Jehad Al-Obaidi, Mervat Alsous, Feras Jassim Jirjees |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Adolescent Science Health Personnel MEDLINE Developing country Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Disease Affect (psychology) Article 03 medical and health sciences Middle East Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Papillomavirus Vaccines Risk factor Human papillomavirus Students Papillomaviridae Cancer Cervical cancer Multidisciplinary business.industry Immunization Programs Papillomavirus Infections Vaccination Health care Age Factors Middle Aged medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Family medicine Medicine Female business |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Cervical cancer (CC) is one of the most common types of cancer that affect females worldwide with hundreds of thousands of women dying annually due to this disease, mainly in developing countries. Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main risk factor for this cancer. There are no public awareness and national immunization programs in most Arab countries. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge and awareness about the HPV vaccine among females in four Arab countries and their acceptance to receive the vaccine. A cross-sectional study was conducted in several Arab countries: Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iraq. Respondents that fulfilled the desired criteria and were willing to participate in the study were asked to fill out the survey. Knowledge and awareness were assessed using 13 questions. Ethical approvals were given from the four countries. A total of 3658 individuals participated in the study; however, 2804 responses were included in the analysis and more than one third of participants (n = 1007) were aged between 18 and 25 years old. This study revealed poor awareness and knowledge of the participants about HPV and its vaccine among all four countries’ participants with relatively better knowledge among participants from the UAE. Participants who are younger (18–25 years old), have a postgraduate education, have an education or career related to the medical field, or had a Pap smear in the last three years tend to have higher knowledge about the HPV vaccine compared to others. Poor knowledge and awareness findings in this study were expected, considering the lack of public education campaigns regarding the HPV virus coupled with the absence of the HPV vaccination from the national immunization schedule in three participating countries (Jordan, Qatar, and Iraq). It is recommended that there is a need to provide national educational campaigns about the HPV vaccine to the public in all Arab populations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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